Michael Mouton

Michael Mouton (pronouns: he/him) is the Communications Manager at the Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA), where he supports communications strategy, organizational storytelling, and member communications. In this role, Michael helps make EGA’s work clear, accessible, and connected to broader movements for environmental justice, racial equity, and equitable philanthropy.

Michael is a movement communicator shaped by the belief that civil rights, environmental justice, and climate justice are not separate stories. His commitment to this work is rooted in his hometown of Houston, where he served as Communications Director and Press Secretary for Congressman Al Green (TX-09), whose district included communities such as Sunnyside, Kashmere Gardens, and other neighborhoods that have long experienced the consequences of environmental neglect, disinvestment, flooding, and toxic exposure.

Throughout his career, Michael has worked to make complex public-interest issues more understandable without flattening their stakes, histories, or human consequences. Before joining EGA, he coordinated messaging for civil rights and housing justice coalitions at the Poverty & Race Research Action Council.

Michael holds an M.S. in Strategic Communication from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Government from Cornell University. His graduate research focused on how institutions translate purpose into practice and communicate effectively with stakeholders and the public.

Michael is based in Austin, Texas, the ancestral homelands of the Coahuiltecan, Tonkawa, Comanche, Lipan Apache, and other Indigenous peoples who have lived in and moved through present-day Central Texas. Outside of work, he can often be found on a greenbelt trail with Slim, his rescue pit bull, who has very strong opinions about the pace of any walk.