Matthew Tejada - Director, EPA Office of Environmental Justice

Matthew Tejada

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is turning to Matthew Tejada, a Houston activist, to lead the EPA's Office of Environmental Justice. As executive director of the Air Alliance Houston for almost six years (2007-2013), Tejada fought against pollution in poor neighborhoods surrounding Gulf Coast ports. Tejada is expected to begin his new role in early March.

University of Oxford, PhD, History,  2004 – 2006

 

University of Oxford, MPhil, Russian and East European Studies, 2002 – 2004

 

The University of Texas at Austin, BA, English, 1997 – 2000