Eric K. Ward

Eric K. Ward is National Field Director of the Building Democracy Initiative of the Center for New Community. He is the organizer of Which Way Forward, a national framework for policy and program decisions about relationships between native-born black people and immigrants and has compiled “The Nativism Watch” since 2006. A former staff member with Clergy and Laity Concerned, Eric founded and directed a community project designed to expose and counter hate groups and respond to bigoted violence. Eric has served on the boards of the Western States Center, McKenzie River Gathering Foundation, and A Territory Resource Foundation. He is the editor of three published works, and his most recent writings have appeared in the Southern Poverty Law Center Journal, "The Intelligence Report", and the European monthly, “Searchlight Magazine".  Eric serves on the board of the Moenkopi Group, a non-profit that produces documentaries on subjects not usually addressed in mainstream media.