Eric Garcia

Eric Garcia is a senior Washington correspondent at The Independent and the author of the 2021 book We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation. He has worked as an assistant editor at The Washington Post’s Outlook section and wrote regularly for the paper, and as an associate editor at The Hill. He also worked at Roll Call, where he interviewed elected officials ranging including Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren, and MarketWatch, where he covered financial regulation.

Mr. Garcia has written extensively about autism and disability rights for National Journal Daily, The Washington Post, NBC’s THINK, and The Daily Beast. Prior to his time in journalism, Mr. Garcia interned at the White House during the Obama administration and is an alumnus of Chaffey College and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.