Bro. Eric Walker
Bro. Eric D. Walker is a social service provider serving the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In support of minors who have suffered trauma, Bro. Walker provides therapeutic mentoring to help minors achieve stability, social skills, communications skills, and coping strategies. For a decade, Bro. Walker has engaged children in both their homes or in lockdown facilities, guiding them through their journeys from hospitalization and institutionalization to reintegration into society as productive members.
Concurrent with his professional commitment to children, Bro. Walker is also an entrepreneur. In the mid-1990s, Bro. Walker assumed management of a local student-run entertainment company known as QNR Productions. He soon would take over ownership of the business and expand it from a mere DJ services company to a full-service event planning business providing music, floral, catering at other event-related services. In 1997, Bro. Walker was awarded the Montel Prize for Entrepreneurship by Tufts University.
Bro. Walker is a native of New Jersey where he was graduated from the prestigious Newark Academy in 1987. He came to the greater Boston area to attend Tufts University as a member of the class of 1991. Brother Walker majored in American Studies, and played both lacrosse and rugby. Brother Walker was initiated into the Zeta Chi Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma in the Spring of 1989. He was the sole representative of the Frat on the Cambridge side of the Charles River. He understood that recruitment was imperative and undertook this challenge immediately. He laid the groundwork for a flourishing chapter with Tufts as a hub. Brother Walker continued to make Brothers at Tufts in 1990 and 1991, all of whom were initiated into Zeta Chi Chapter. Beginning in 1994, Brother Walker laid the groundwork for re-establishing Beta Alpha Chapter throughout the Boston metropolitan area. His lineage of Beta Alpha Brothers continues today.