User:Artmurillo

Art Murillo is a Senior Community Outreach Representative for the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO). In this capacity, he coordinates many important activities and projects designed to expand and improve METRO’s communication efforts with the Houston community. Murillo also develops and manages relationships with business and community groups in METRO’s northern service regions, and in Spanish-speaking communities across the Houston region.

Murillo coordinates many METRO sponsored projects, including public groundbreaking and ribbon-cutting celebrations. He serves as liaison to METRO consultants for public involvement initiatives pertaining to METRO Solutions and other long-term capital projects.

Murillo serves on the Board of Directors of the Houston Intercontinental Chamber of Commerce, and is an active member of the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Greater Greenspoint Redevelopment Authority (TIRZ); and was as a founding member of the East Aldine Improvement District Board of Directors. In 2004, Murillo was elected to the Aldine Independent School District Board of Trustees. Art has also served on the Aldine-Greenspoint YMCA Board of Directors, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo’s Go-Tejano Committee, and numerous other organizations. He has been recognized as a “Diversity First Award Winner” by the Texas Diversity Council, and he was named the 2001 Tejano Man of the Year by the Houston Chronicle.

Art Murillo attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. Art also obtained a Master in Public Administration degree from Texas State University in San Marcos.

art.murillo@ridemetro.org 713.652.4316