Staff

Communications Director

Eric Brown has been the Communications Director for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation since 2003. He is also Chair of the Board of the Communications Network, an organization that works to advance good communications practices in philanthropy.

Eric has also served as the communications director at the Center for a New American Dream, a nonprofit organization in the Washington, D.C., area, and 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).

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