Career
After law school, he joined the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Sanford asked Esser in 1963 to run the experimental North Carolina Fund, which in its five years established community action agencies across the state. When he died, he was a board member of MDC Inc., a job training program established by the fund in 1967.
Esser later was a program adviser for the Ford Foundation, executive director of the Southern Regional Council in Atlanta and executive director of the National Academy of Public Administration in Washington, D.C..
He received the North Carolina Philanthropy Award in 1995.
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