Color Of Water

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

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Andrea León-Grossmann

Walt Walker

TYLin

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Victor Galvan

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

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Benu Amun Ra

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

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Olga Cano

HUD

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Roland Jones

CIS

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Paula Buchanan

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

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Afia Zakiya

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

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Aria Harris

TYLin

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Esteban Ortiz

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

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Talia London

The Common Acre

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

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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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