Mr. Chrisp is a researcher and evaluator at the University of New Mexico Center for Health Promotion and disease Prevention. He currently conducts research and evaluation for the Health Evaluation And Research Team (HEART) and for the Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey (YRRS) project. As a part of HEART, he is heavily involved in community based research on New Mexico’s tobacco related health disparities. He specializes in race and ethnicity as well as community based participatory research. In the past he has worked on issues of community development, youth and community empowerment as well as other health related research. Eric received a Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology from the University of South Florida.