Usman serves as Senior Policy Analyst at Bayou City Waterkeeper, where he coordinates water policy reform initiatives across the City of Houston and Harris County. In this role, he leverages government relations, coalition-building, and public advocacy to advance infrastructure equity and environmental safeguards for Houston-area communities.

Since joining BCWK in 2023, Usman has been a part of significant policy milestones, including the development of Turning the Tide, Bayou City Waterkeeper’s first-ever policy agenda. He has represented BCWK before Houston Public Works, the Texas Water Development Board, the Texas Legislature, and federal legislators in D.C., advocating for equitable and sustainable water infrastructure investments. Usman has authored public-facing policy recommendations to TWDB and City of Houston to address the city’s aging water infrastructure and disinvestment gaps through various state and federal funding sources.

He holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of Houston and currently serves on the Alumni Association Board of the Hobby School of Public Affairs. He is a big fan of cats despite not owning one, and considers himself the unofficial office comedian which BCWK staff tolerates with only mild suffering.