Eric with the Design Studio team installing a Tactical Urbanism Bus Stop Project on Antioch Pike
Eric’s family: Dani, Wini, Eric, and Beulah at Centennial Park Rose Garden
(not pictured 160 lbs female Mastiff, Plunk)
Eric with the Design Studio team, promoting ideas to enhance the Looby Center in North Nashville
Eric holds a bachelor's degree in interior architecture from Ohio University, where he specialized in graphics and 3D models. His thesis project was an adaptive reuse concept for a high-speed rail hub in the Chicago Central Carrier Annex post office building, aimed at connecting the Midwest by train. Eric's career has encompassed diverse roles in design-related organizations, including residential architecture, medical design, furniture design, and graphic design.
Eric joined the Civic Design Center in 2012 and has since been deeply engaged in advancing sustainability, transportation, advocacy, and design across Nashville. He served two terms on the board of Transit Now Nashville, including as Vice President, and participated in WeGo Public Transit’s Better Bus Committee. He is an alum of the ULI Health Leaders Network, a member of Smart Growth America’s Complete Streets Leadership Academy Committee, and has represented the Civic Design Center on the Mayor’s Sustainability Advisory Committee. Eric has contributed to multiple citywide initiatives, including the Technical Advisory Committee for Choose How You Move: Nashville’s 2024 Transit Improvement Program, NDOT’s Major and Collector Street Plan Update (2025), and Metro Planning’s Ecological Conservation Strategy (2025). He currently serves on Metro’s Vision Zero Advisory Committee and continues his work with the Connect Mid-TN transit coalition. In recognition of his leadership, Eric received Walk Bike Nashville’s Advocate of the Year award in 2025 and will be honored with the 82 Alliance’s Emerging Mobility Champion Under 40 award later that year.
What Eric does at the Civic Design Center:
As Director of the Design Studio, Eric has been involved in most of the last decade of projects at the Civic Design Center in some capacity. Some of his favorites include Prioritizing Pedestrian Safety on Dickerson, envisioning a new park in Madison, and working on the New East Bank Neighborhood. Eric fully designed the Civic Design Center’s new logo and Brand Guidelines in 2020. He also manages strategic visual graphics and guides the design and style of all publications and project reports.