Eric Porterfield

Biography

Eric Porterfield is the communications lead for Social Good at Facebook. In this role, he oversees communications across the product areas of Crisis Response, Health, Charitable Giving, Civic Engagement and Mentorship that help people come together and help one another. Previously, Eric was the Senior Communications Director at the United Nations Foundation, overseeing public relations across campaigns and initiatives focused on global health and development. He also oversaw the development of a press fellowship program that took over 500 journalists to see international development programs around the world.

After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Eric did a year of service with Americorps and worked as a research assistant at Duke University. With the desire to focus on more international issues and journalism, Eric moved to London to study international affairs at Webster University. Following graduate school, he worked at Good Morning America for ABC News. After living and working in New York, Eric left television to join the international services division of the American Red Cross to cover their work in Asia. After covering international disasters for more than four years and doing humanitarian missions in Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Haiti, he joined the UN Foundation in 2010.