Cliff Villa currently serves as Deputy Assistant Administrator for the U.S. EPA Office of Land and Emergency Management, where he provides policy direction for programs including Superfund cleanup, Brownfields funding, hazardous waste management, and emergency response.  At EPA, Cliff carries out priorities of the Biden Administration centered on environmental justice and climate change, drawing upon new resources provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.  This spring, at Columbia Law School, Cliff is also teaching a seminar on Environmental Justice.  Previously, Cliff served as tenured faculty at the University of New Mexico School of Law, where he teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional rights, environmental law, and environmental justice.  Before joining the UNM law faculty in 2015, Cliff spent more than 20 years as an EPA attorney in Washington, D.C.; Denver, Colorado; and Seattle, Washington.  Among other publications, Cliff is the lead author of Environmental Justice:  Law, Policy & Regulation (3^rd ed. 2020), and author of continuing legal scholarship on environmental justice including Remaking Environmental Justice, 66 Loyola L. Rev. 469 (2020); and Don’t Blame the Flint River, 52 Envtl. L. 341 (2022).  Cliff was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with local roots tracing back over three hundred years.