Motley, Eric L. Lamar: - Eric Motley grew up in Alabama, the son of adoptive parents who raised him in the freed slave's town of Madison Park, Alabama. From this beginning in the black community he rose to become a special assistant to President George W. Bush. Eric is Executive Vice President of the think tank The Aspen Institute which on a national and international level discusses today's global issues that face the United States and her partners across the world.