Eric Brown is the Communications Director for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Before coming to the Hewlett Foundation, Eric was the communications director at the Center for a New American Dream, a nonprofit organization in the Washington, D.C., area. 

Prior to that, he was press secretary and speechwriter for Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez, a seven-term member of Congress from New York. As a political media consultant, Eric produced hundreds of television and radio ads for U.S. Senate, Congressional, and statewide campaigns for Alexandria, Virginia-based Murphy Putnam Media. He is also a contributing author of Take Back Your Time (2003, Berrett-Koehler).

Eric holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California at Berkeley, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.