Keynote Speaker
Eric Hoover, Senior Writer
Chronicle of Higher Education
Eric Hoover has written extensively about college access, admissions, standardized testing, and student diversity since 2001. His articles have also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Washington Monthly, and Nautilus.
Eric has received numerous journalism awards: He is a two-time winner of the Education Writers Association’s Eddie Prize, which recognizes distinguished reporting on the challenges facing low-income students, and a recipient of Eugene S. Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award, for feature writing.
Eric earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Virginia in 1997, and lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, journalist Emily Heil.