A native of Brockton, Massachusetts, Eric got his start in journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where his reporting for the Boston Globe on the use of confidential informants by the university’s police, and a former student informant’s overdose death earned him appearances on national television and radio. He worked on the Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team, reporting and assisting on the team’s “Desperate and the Dead” series on Massachusetts’ mental health care system. He’s also worked as a news reporter at the New Bedford Standard-Times and as a research assistant and writer at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center on a project about the use of data analytics in municipal government. He was a 2017 Crossing the Divide fellow with The GroundTruth Project.