Color Of Water

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

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Olga Cano

HUD

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Talia London

The Common Acre

Benu Amun Ra

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

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Andrea León-Grossmann

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Victor Galvan

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

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Esteban Ortiz

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

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Walt Walker

TYLin

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Aria Harris

TYLin

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Paula Buchanan

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

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Afia Zakiya

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

Roland Jones

CIS

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

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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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