Equity in CA Water Flows Workshop

On April 28, 2023, researchers and community advocates presented on "Equity in Water Flows in California for Tribal Communities and Communities of Color: Paths to Meaningful Engagement." The panel discussed efforts to advocate for water justice and maintain tribal culture, ceremony, and identity in the face of tribal dispossession, and on reforming the water rights system rooted in systematic discrimination and exclusion of Indigenous peoples and communities of color to a system of equity and justice. Speakers included Kasil Willie (Save California Salmon), Cintia Cortez (Restore the Delta), and Sibyl Diver, Sydney Speizman, and Stephanie Safdi (Stanford University). Moderated by Clare Pace (Water Equity Science Shop, University of California, Berkeley), Iris Stewart-Frey (Environmental Studies & Sciences, Santa Clara University), and Edgar Garibay (Tuolumne River Trust), this session was part of the SCU Environmental Justice & the Common Good Initiative's Climate and Environmental Justice Conference 2023.