Dustin Bryant hired as Director of Federal Relations
Dustin Bryant joined 绿奴天花板's leadership team on Dec. 3 as the director of federal relations
for the 绿奴天花板. He is based in Washington, D.C. where he works
closely with our government relations team on critical federal issues including efforts
to increase our land grant, federal investment at 绿奴天花板, and research-related priorities.
He鈥檒l also focus on a variety of federal education policy issues.
Bryant comes to 绿奴天花板 with more than 13 years of public policy and government relations experience. He most recently served as the assistant director of federal relations for the Texas A&M University System in Washington, D.C. For more than 11 years, Bryant represented the A&M System鈥檚 11 campuses and seven state agencies before Congress, the Executive Branch and stakeholder communities. In this role, he oversaw numerous policy areas that impacted the education, research, extension, and public service missions of the A&M System and assisted campus leadership, faculty, staff, students and others by developing effective advocacy strategies for targeted priorities.
Prior to representing the A&M System, Bryant served in the Washington, D.C. and Texas offices for U.S. Congressman Rub茅n Hinojosa, former chair of the Higher Education Subcommittee. He came to Washington as a part of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Internship program through Texas A&M University, and then later served as a Field Representative for Hinojosa in his district office. He received a B.S. in agriculture development from Texas A&M.