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-facing 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), representing communities including Sunnyside, Kashmere Gardens, and other neighborhoods that have long lived with the human 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. Prior to joining EGA, he coordinated messaging for civil rights and housing justice coalitions at the Poverty & Race Research Action Council and led efforts to build communications functions from the ground up in mission-driven organizations.

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

Michael is currently 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 pitbull, who has very strong opinions about the pace of any walk.