Color Of Water

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

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Walt Walker

TYLin

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Esteban Ortiz

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

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Aria Harris

TYLin

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Benu Amun Ra

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

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Olga Cano

HUD

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Afia Zakiya

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

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Victor Galvan

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

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Roland Jones

CIS

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Talia London

The Common Acre

Paula Buchanan

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

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

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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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