Tai Lung
Environmental policy, data, and tools
- Role
- Rapid Response Fellow at Policylink
- Location
- Washington, DC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Tai Lung
Key Qualifications: • 15 years of experience in environmental policy, partnerships, and mapping, with a strong understanding of complex environmental challenges and cross-sector collaboration. • Proven ability to develop, implement, and analyze mission-critical government programs and policies, with strong communication skills that translate complex analysis into actionable policy recommendations. • History of establishing and maintaining strategic partnerships with internal EPA offices, federal and state agencies, academic institutions, industry representatives, and community stakeholders to advance environmental justice and policy initiatives. • Over a decade of experience leading EJScreen, one of EPA’s most widely used mapping tools, applying geospatial technology to analyze and inform community-focused environmental decisions.
Experience
Rapid Response Fellow
Nov 2025 — Present
Embedded at Bayou City Waterkeeper, a Houston-based nonprofit focused on protecting the waters and people of the region through legal action, community science, and grassroots policy to further justice, health, and safety.• Provided strategic data and governance support to a frontline environmental justice organization during a period of rapid growth and heightened federal policy risk.• Developed organization wide recommendations to guide a long-term data and tools strategy, strengthening data governance, data rights practices, and alignment between EJ data, GIS tools, community science, and advocacy priorities.• Partnered with executive leadership and cross functional staff to build internal data capacity, including EJ data literacy, data governance protocols, and frameworks for turning data into legal, policy, and organizing action.• Identified critical environmental justice data gaps and risks, delivering recommendations to improve data integrity, map relevance, and organizational resilience within regional and federal advocacy ecosystems.
Education
University of Maryland
Master's degree
2016 — 2017
West Virginia University
Bachelor of Arts - BA
1994 — 1999
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