About Eric

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Eric is District 3's County Council Member.  He was elected to the Council in 2022, and is running for re-election in 2026.

Eric serves as Chair of the Council's Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy, and Environment Committee.  In that role, he reshaped the rules for the county's most urban roads through his "Walkable Urban Streets Act" to make them safer for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists alike.  He successfully made the County's bus transit, "The Bus" free (and saved money in the process), significantly increased funding for installation of bus shelters, and advanced forest conservation and tree canopy.

He has focused on neighborhood quality of life concerns - banning boats from parking on neighborhood streets, and pressing agencies to be responsive by addressing problem properties, nuisances, abandoned vehicles, trailers, and other problems.  He successfully sought state approval for the county to increase fines - which had not changed in decades - on the worst quality of life offenders to force compliance.

Eric has championed transit oriented development near our Metro stations, future Purple Line stops, and in our most urban areas, while ensuring existing neighborhood concerns are addressed.  He has worked to address stormwater management problems, and increase our community's resilience to climate change.  Eric continues to expand our bike trail system and create more opportunities for neighborhoods to be connected to transit, commerce, employment centers, and other neighborhoods. 

He previously represented Prince George’s County District 3 as its Council Member from 2006 – 2014. He served as County Council Vice Chair from 2010 to 2012, and as Chair of its Transportation, Housing, and Environment Committee. Eric chaired the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Region Forward Committee, and served as a member of the region’s Transportation Planning Board. He previously served as a board member for the Coalition to Build the Purple Line. He is a recipient of the Center for Nonprofit Advancement’s Phyllis Campbell Newsome Public Policy Leadership Award.

From 2014 to 2022, Eric served as Executive Director of the College Park City-University Partnership. This community development corporation is growing homeownership, improving walkability, expanding local businesses, increasing educational opportunities, enhancing public spaces and more.

Previously, Eric was a College Park City Council Member (1997 -2006); Director of the Sierra Club’s Healthy Communities Campaign; Deputy Director of Fairvote, a national election reform and voting rights organization; and a Legislative Aide to then-Congressman, now U.S. Senator, Bernie Sanders. 

He has spent many seasons on the playing fields and courts of the area, coaching youth soccer and basketball, and lives in College Park with his wife, Sarah, and two daughters.