Color Of Water

Elevating Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other voices of color to change the narrative around water.

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Talia London

The Common Acre

Guadalupe F

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Roland Jones

CIS

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Esteban Ortiz

The Gorge Association of Aspirations/La Asociacion de Aspiraciones del Gorge

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Afia Zakiya

Independent Africana Studies and EJ scholar-activist, currently Executive Director of Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Aria Harris

TYLin

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Benu Amun Ra

S.A.C.R.Ed Eco-Center

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Shama Perveen

Ceres

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Paula Buchanan

National Center for Domestic Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Walt Walker

TYLin

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Victor Galvan

Denver Mayor's Office for Climate Action, Sustainability and Resilience

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Olga Cano

HUD

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

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About Us

The Color of Water Initiative was created by the Water Hub to build voice and visibility for people of color in the water movement. Our goal is to connect reporters with a more diverse set of experts, and build capacity for these experts to elevate the stories of their communities, which have often been left out of conversations around water. 

 

From water access and drought response in the West to lead pipes and PFAS pollution in the Great Lakes to recurring flooding and water infrastructure failures in the South, Color of Water members have deep expertise and first-hand experience on water challenges and solutions all across the country.


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