About Eric

OVERVIEW 

The theme of Eric’s campaign is Decency and Sense. Along with fair-mindedness, these are values that he has sought to promote in our thinking and discourse throughout his life.

As an undergraduate, he led the Independent Party of the Yale Political Union, whose members looked at the world not as captives of groupthink but as free-thinking individuals.

As a Congressional aide, his closest friends were colleagues in the other party who, like him, were active in the House Legislative Assistants Association and Hill Staffers for the Hungry and Homeless.

At Colorado Media Matters, he energetically reported on bias and misinformation. However, when an assignment struck him as unfair, he would argue against and decline it.

Eric is the founding president of the board of the Transcendental Politics Foundation and a founding leader and current co-chair of the Douglas County-based chapter of Braver Angels, an organization devoted to “uniting red and blue Americans in a working alliance to depolarize America.”

Eric believes that we accomplish so much more for our communities – and ourselves – when we set aside tribal identities and see one another as partners in common purpose.

In addition to his work on Capitol Hill, Eric has garnered considerable experience in the healthcare field as a grant writer and manager for non-profit organizations. His dedication to the strengthening of democracy and civil society is also reflected in his work for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.

With his wife and infant child, Eric moved to Colorado and to Castle Pines almost 20 years ago. He is very well familiar with the challenges our community faces, and prioritizes water scarcity, wildfire risk, housing affordability, and education funding. He looks forward to working with decent and sensible people – of all political leanings and none at all – to  meet these and other challenges.

In Washington, served on the legislative staff of a U.S. representative, gaining first hand experience of the legislative process and forming warm friendships with colleagues of both major parties. Additionally, volunteered with Hill Staffers for the Hungry and Homeless, serving as the organization’s representative on the board of the Dinner Program for Homeless Women, which was a project of the First Congregational Church. Also was active in the House Legislative Assistants Association.

Worked for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), leading delegations of Russian citizens to the U.S. Capitol and to the capital of Michigan to meet with legislators and associations to learn first hand about the American political process.

As a member of the development and communications teams at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJF), the University of Colorado, the Mental Health Center of Denver (now doing business as WellPower), and at Tepeyac Community Health Center, gained insights about medical research and the provision of behavioral and physical health care.

Working for the Colorado branch of Media Matters for America, gained increased insights into political and policy issues and the ways they are (mis-)communicated.   

Serves as the founding and current president of the board of directors of the Transcendental Politics Foundation, an organization one of whose major objectives is to promote fair-mindedness in thinking and discourse. 

Founding member and current co-chair of the steering committee of the Southern Front Range Alliance, which is Douglas County’s chapter of Braver Angels, a citizens’ organization devoted to “uniting red and blue Americans in a working alliance to depolarize America.”

Founder of Decent and Sensible Dialogue, which is a Facegroup group devoted to civil and productive conversations.