Eric Moore is a passionate advocate for data driven decision making. He believes strongly in the power of youth, parent, and community voice to accelerate  systemic change and equitable practices. 

He currently serves as CEO of Moore Solutions. Moore Solutions is a consulting firm that focuses on equity-based strategic planning, program evaluation, youth/parent participatory action research, and intergenerational programming. Prior to Moore Solutions, Eric recently also served the Chief Insights and Innovation Officer for the African American Leadership Forum. The African American Leadership Forum is a statewide think and do tank in Minnesota that converts research-based thoughts on social issues into action-oriented agendas and solutions in the areas of education, health, generational wealth, economic prosperity, environmental justice, and safety. 

He has nearly thirty years in higher education, K-12, and the non-profit sector serving in various leadership roles with Senior cabinet roles in Academics, Accountability, Research, Equity, Social and Emotional learning, School Improvement and Student Services. In these roles, his efforts have focused on eliminating barriers to higher educational participation for students of color, K-12 systemic equity and SEL, youth and parent participatory evaluation practices, school climate frameworks and initiatives, SEL measurement, school integration, and teacher diversity. 

He is a proud recipient of the CASEL Utne O’Brien award for Excellence in Expanding Evidence-Based Practice in 2021 for his work on SEL and equity, SEL assessment, youth and parent participatory practices, and systemic SEL. He also received the Strategic Data Use award in 2022 from the Center of Education Policy Research, Harvard University. 

Eric currently serves on the CASEL Research Advisory Committee, The Editorial board of the CASEL SEL journal, and serves as a board member for the Center for Reaching and Teaching the Whole Child. He is also an advisory member for the Black Teacher Collaborative. He served on the CASEL assessment work group from 2017–2019, The American Institute of Research SEL-RISC youth development meta-analysis work group (2023–2025) and the Institute of Education Science (2001–2023) application committee for education as the first school district research representative. 

His contributions to the field of SEL and Education include but are not limited to serving as co-author of Connecting the Black SEL framework to Transformative SEL (2025), co-designing the Teacher Pathway program in Minneapolis public schools (2000–2023), contributing to the  CASEL State of the Field Report (2019), and serving as contributor to the Aspen Institute School Improvement Guide on SEL and Equity (2019). His work in K-12 education has been featured in “A Time for Change” (Fazil 2023), Engaging youth voices in addressing disproportionality (2020), the Century Foundation (2020), Education Week (June 2019, October 2019, June 2020), and The New York Times (November 27, 2021).