About Eric

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Eric is District 3's County Council Member.  He was elected to the Council in 2022.

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.