OUR TEAM

Eric Sapp is Senior Partner at Common Good Strategies. Prior to joining CGS, Eric worked in Rep. David Price's (NC-04) D.C. office, where he handled faith and politics, budget, tax, and homeland security issues and was responsible for Orange County and Duke/Chapel Hill campus outreach during the 2004 election. Before that, he worked as an aide on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. He also served as part-time Director of Christian Education at Heritage Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, VA where he is currently an elder.

Eric graduated from Davidson College and received a Master of Divinity and a Master of Public Policy from Duke University. While at Duke, he served for three years as youth pastor at First Presbyterian Church, Durham. Eric currently lives in Alexandria, VA with his wife and high school sweetheart, Julie.

Mara Vanderslice is founder and Senior Partner at Common Good Strategies. Mara was the Director of Religious Outreach for the Kerry-Edwards 2004 campaign, the first national religious outreach liaison for a Democratic presidential campaign. Prior to her service on the Kerry campaign, Mara worked on Community and Faith Outreach for Howard Dean in the Iowa primaries.

Mara has eight years of campaign and advocacy experience, working for organizations including, Sojourners, Call to Renewal and the Jubilee 2000 campaign for debt-relief. She received her bachelor's degree from Earlham College, in Richmond, IN, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with honors for her work in campus ministry.