Eric Goldstein expanded One World Education from a successful classroom project into a nonprofit organization in 2007. Prior to One World, Eric taught in public, charter, and independent schools and earned a US Department of the Interior Partners in Education Award while teaching in Southeast Washington, D.C., in 2006. Eric holds a master's in education from the University of Vermont and master's of international policy from George Washington University. His career in education started after a solo, 5,000-mile, bicycle trip across the United States in 1999.