Dr. Eckardt is a graduate of Messiah College, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the Harvard School of Public Health. She currently serves as Senior Maternal Health Advisor in the Global Health Innovation Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital and practices obstetrics and gynecology at Monadnock Community Hospital in southern New Hampshire.
As a member of the Board of Trustees since 2017, prior to serving as the chair, Dr. Eckardt served as Chair of the Enrollment Committee, co-chair of the President’s Task Force on Racial Justice, and a member of the Executive Committee. She and her husband Ralph live in Milton, MA, with their three children and attend Wollaston Church of the Nazarene.