Eric Liu is the CEO and co-founder of Citizen University, a non-profit organization that works to build a culture of powerful and responsible citizenship in the United States. He is also the founding executive director of the Aspen Institute’s Citizenship & American Identity Program. Mr. Liu served as President Clinton’s deputy domestic policy adviser and was a White House speechwriter and a Director of Legislative Affairs for the National Security Council prior to that. He was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve on the board of directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service. Mr. Liu is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Yale College, and he serves on the Yale University Council. Elected in 2020 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Mr. Liu is co-chair, with Danielle Allen and Stephen Heintz, of the Academy’s “Our Common Purpose” Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship. He is the author of numerous acclaimed books, including most recently You’re More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen’s Guide to Making Change Happen and Become America: Civic Sermons on Love, Responsibility, and Democracy, and is currently at work on a book about American civic literacy. His TED Talks on democracy, voting, and civic power have been viewed over eight million times.
