Eric Ward

Eric K. Ward is currently the executive director of Western States Center. Western States Center's mission is to connect and build the power of community organizations to challenge and transform individuals, organizations and systems to achieve racial, gender and economic justice. Eric is a long time civil rights strategist who spent 1990 - 2010 working with communities across the United States to counter social movements seeking to use bigotry and hate violence to undermine democratic society. Before joining Western States Center, Eric was the Program Officer overseeing racial justice and civil rights for the Ford Foundation. He was interviewed at our Tikkun office in Berkeley during a brief visit he made to the SF Bay Area.

33.1/2 Winter Spring

The Evolution of Identity Politics

By Eric Ward | April 23, 2018

How identity politics has been exploited, and how it can be healed

The Evolution of Identity Politics: An Interview with Eric Ward

By Eric Ward | April 4, 2018

In this interview, Eric Ward reminds us that "[w]e are complicated human beings with multiple identities and interests" and that "[i]t is simply not a true liberation movement unless it is grounded in a universalism seeking to advance all of us."