Martina E. Cartwright
Director Environmental Law and Justice Center

Education:
B.A., 1990 University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
J.D., 1993 The American University-Washington College of Law, Washington DC

Phone: (713) 313-1019

Fax: (713) 313-1049

Email: Martina Cartwright

Biographical Information
Director, Environmental Law and Justice Center, Texas Southern University-Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX., 2003-Present
Interim project Director/Instructor, Environmental Law and Justice Center, Texas Southern University-Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX., 2002-2003
Clinical Instructor, Caribbean Law Clinic, Texas Southern University-Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX., 2001-Present Consultant/Contract Attorney, Houston, TX., 1996-Present
Staff Attorney/Clinical Instructor, Texas Southern University-Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX., 1995-2001

Affiliations
Secretary, Technical Workgroup, EPA Air Monitoring Committee 2001-2002
Member NIEHS Environmental Town Meeting Work Group, (sponsored by Baylor College of Medicine) 2001-2002
Board Member, American Civil Liberties Union, Houston Chapter2000-2002
Secretary, American Civil Liberties Union, Houston Chapter2000-2001
Board Member, Community-Based Lead Poisoning Prevention Initiative (Community Toolbox) 1999-2001
Ad Hoc RAQPC (Regional Air Quality Planning Committee) Technical Workgroup (NOx) 1998-1999
Houston Environmental Foresight Steering Committee 1998-2000

Research and Teaching Interests
US EPA, Region VI Grant: 2002 Region VI Environmental Listening Session Role: PI
Caribbean Law
Environmental Law
Environmental Justice
International Environmental Law
Toxic Tort

Publications
Hankins G and Cartwright M. The Pleasantville Fires. Danger in the Air: Toxic air in the Houston/Galveston corridor. November, 1996
Cartwright M., Pursuing Environmental Justice: Can Brownfields redevelopment co-exist with environmental justice? Program Materials for Key Environmental Issues in U.S. EPA Region V June 24, 1999
Cartwright M., MTBE: Are mass tort cases federally pre-empted by the C.A.A.? (in progress).

Selected Presentations
Panelist Environmental Justice and the Title VI, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., Lawyer's Training Institute, Oct. 3-5, 1996
Palelist Environmental Justice: Legal Considerations, National Coalition of Black Lawyers Annual Conference, Oct 11-13, 1996
Co-Panelist Teaching Students about Dealing with Environmental Justice Issues, Building Blocks for Environmental Education in Texas Environmental Institute of Houston, April 10-12 1997
Presenter Environmental Justice: Domestic and International Implications, Institute of International Education, Visitor's Program, May 20, 1997
Presenter Environmental Justice, Title VI, and Executive Order 12898: Legal Considerrations, HBCU/MI Environmental Technology Consortium, November 1, 1997
Panelist Brownfield & Superfund, National Association of Environmental Law Societies, April 2-5, 1998
Panelist Environmental Organizing: Class, Race & Power, Bertha Capen Reynolds Society, June 26-28, 1998
Panelist Assessing the Region's Environment: Environmental Justice, Houston Environmental Foresight, Houston Environment, 1998, September 24, 1998
Panelist Legal Rights, Enforcement, and Polluter Fines, First Annual North Carolina Environmental Justice Summit, October 9-11, 1998
Plenary Session Panelist The Law, economics, Human Rights, and Environmental Justice, First Annual North Carolina Environmental Justice summit, October 9-11, 1998
Moderator Health & the Environment, Justice and Hope Conference, LCWR Gatherings of women, March 9, 1999
Panelist Environmental Justice and the Law, Earth Day, Texas Southern University Environmental Health Student's Association, April 21, 1999
Moderator Environmental Law Carrers, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Environmental Law Society, November, 2000
Panelist Brownfields, National Association of Environmental Law Societies, March 23-25, 2001
Panelist Enironmental Justice & Title VI, National Association of Environmental Law Societies, March 23-25, 2001
Panelist Community Involvement and Brownfields, Mayor's Conference on Brownfields, April 2001
Panelist Immigration Issues, History of Immigration from West Indies to U.S., Caribbean Law Students Association, March 2002
Panelist Environmental Justice and Health, Social, Health, and Justice Conference, november 15-16, 2002
Moderator Siting, Region VI Environmental Justice Listening Session, November 15, 2002
Panelist Citizen Participation in the New Source Review Permitting Process, NSR, Janurayr 25, 2003
Panelist Urban park Lands, Rice University's 11th Annual Student Environmental Conference: This Land is Your Land: Public Lands' Histor, Philosophy, and Controversy, March 1, 2003