Eric studied environmental science at Wesleyan University and environmental health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has spent his career working as an environmental policy consultant for federal, state and local governments, focusing on human health protection, sustainability and environmental justice. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Industrial Economics, Incorporated, an environmental and economics consulting firm in Cambridge, Mass.
In recent years, his work focused on helping develop recommendations for the EPA and other federal agencies on a variety of health-related issues, ranging from protecting farmworkers from harmful pesticide exposures, to reducing cumulative impacts on vulnerable communities from environmental pollution and socioeconomic factors such as access to healthy food and nutrition.
In 2018, Eric began volunteering with the Racial Justice Initiative (RJI) at Temple Beth Elohim in Wellesley, Mass. Through the RJI, he works on food security, criminal justice reform, and housing justice. Since 2020, he has co-chaired RJI’s Advocacy Committee, helping to identify legislative and policy priorities and effective strategies for advancing them.
Eric lives in Newton, Mass with his wife Debbie. They have two sons and a grandson. He enjoys bike riding, hiking and kayaking in the Berkshires, attending dance, theater and other cultural events and spending time with friends and family.