13 Facts About Eric Liu

Eric P Liu is an American lawyer and CEO and co-founder of Citizen University, a non-profit organization promoting civic empowerment.

Eric Liu served as Speechwriter and Director of Legislative Affairs for the National Security Council at the White House from 1993 to 1994.

Eric Liu was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, to parents born in China who later moved to Taiwan.

Eric Liu's uncle is the former Taiwanese Premier Liu Chao-shiuan.

Eric Liu studied history at Yale University and is a graduate of Harvard Law School.

Eric Liu today is CEO of Citizen University, a non-profit organization that promotes what it calls "powerful citizenship".

Eric Liu's 2014 TED talk on civic power, "Why ordinary people need to understand power", has been viewed more than two million times.

Eric Liu's other TED Talks, on civic religion and on voting, have been viewed millions of times.

Eric Liu's 2017 book You're More Powerful Than You Think is a citizen's guide to the practice of power.

Eric Liu is the author of Guiding Lights: The People Who Lead Us Toward Our Purpose in Life, about transformative mentors, leaders and teachers, and The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker, about ethnicity, identity and acculturation.

Eric Liu wrote the "Teachings" column for Slate magazine from 2002 to 2005.

Eric Liu has taught civic leadership courses at the University of Washington and is the co-founder of the Alliance for Gun Responsibility.

Together with Danielle S Allen and Stephen B Heintz, Liu chaired the bipartisan Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.