Eric Liu

Eric Liu
Born	1968 (age 48–49) Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.
Occupation	author, educator, strategist, journalist
Nationality	USA
Relatives	Jena Cane (wife)

Eric P. Liu (traditional Chinese: 劉柏川; simplified Chinese: 刘柏川; pinyin: Liú Bǎichuān, born 1968) is an American writer and founder of Citizen University. Liu served as Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Domestic Policy at the White House between 1999 and 2000. He served as Speechwriter and Director of Legislative Affairs for the National Security Council at the White House from 1993 to 1994. Liu is currently a Senior Law Lecturer at the University of Washington School of Law. President Obama nominated him in January 2015 to serve on the board of directors of the federal Corporation for National and Community Service; his term will expire in December 2017.

Liu was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, to parents born in China who had emigrated from Taiwan. His uncle is the former Premier of Taiwan (ROC) Liu Chao-shiuan. He studied history at Yale University and is a graduate of Harvard Law School.

Liu today is CEO of Citizen University, a non-profit organization that promotes what it calls "powerful citizenship." His TED talk on this topic has been viewed more than one million times. In 2014 he launched the Aspen Institute Program on Citizenship and American Identity to advance national conversation about the core American question: "Who is us?".

Liu and businessman Nick Hanauer have co-authored two political books: The True Patriot (Sasquatch Books, 2007), which redefines patriotism in progressive terms; and The Gardens of Democracy (Sasquatch Books, 2011), which presents a 21st-century way of envisioning citizenship, the economy, and the role of government.

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