J.P. comes to TCCTA as Executive Director after serving as the Department Head for Geography and Government at Blinn College, where his academic and administrative responsibilities spanned six campuses across Southeast and Central Texas. He has concurrently been a professor of government at Blinn since 2017.
A Houston native, J.P. began his higher education journey as a dual credit high school student in the Lone Star College system. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science at Texas State University (2006) and a Master of Arts degree in Public Administration at the University of Houston (2009). J.P. also holds graduate certificates in Homeland Security (2015) and Nonprofit Management (2018) from Texas A&M University.
In addition to his work in higher education, J.P. is an active civic volunteer who has served on a variety of state and local nonprofit boards. He is also proud to serve in the Texas State Guard, where he currently holds the rank of Captain and serves as the statewide chief of Initial Entry Training. Along with training hundreds of new soldiers and officers, he has served as a public affairs officer and has deployed on several humanitarian missions since being commissioned in 2017.
We are excited to welcome J.P. to the TCCTA community, where he is joining Joseph Taito, Event Planner, and Armani Cobbs, Communications Specialist.