The co-founder and CEO of Citizen University will give a virtual speech on Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m.
Eric Liu, co-founder and CEO of Citizen University, a nonprofit national platform founded to foster citizenship through activation, communication and education, will speak to the Ƶ community as a part of the university’s Speaker Series virtually on Tuesday, Feb. 8.
Liu is a strong advocate for engaged citizenship, an area that Ƶ focuses many of its initiatives around. He launched and currently directs the Aspen Institute’s Citizenship & American Identity Program, which aims to advance the conversation about the nature of American national identity.
In 2014, Liu gave a TEDTalk on civic power titled, “Why ordinary people need to understand power,” which has over two million views. Most recently, he was elected as a member of the American Academy of the Arts and was also selected to be a 2020 Ashoka Fellow by Ashoka, one of the world’s foremost networks of social entrepreneurs.
Previously serving as a speechwriter and deputy domestic policy advisor for former Bill Clinton, Liu has written several books of his own, including “The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker,” “The Gardens of Democracy” (co-authored with Nick Hanauer) and “You’re More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen’s Guide to Making Change Happen.” His latest work, “Become America: Civic Sermons on Love, Responsibility and Democracy,” was released in 2019.
The virtual event can be streamed using .
The Ƶ Speaker Series is presented in partnership with WUNC North Carolina Public Radio with a focus on the power of relationships. The reminder of the Speaker Series events can be found here and additional cultural events for the Spring 2021 semester can be found here.