While I cut my teeth in DC and speak to national audiences, I’d say my greatest education in what it means to live like a citizen has come in my two decades in Seattle. Prefer to watch or listen? Take a browse through my TED Talks or YouTube. They explore the tensions between our idealistic American creed and the institutional realities of racism, inequity, and injustice - tensions CU tries to help civic catalysts to navigate as they serve their communities.
The ideas in those books - like “society becomes how you behave” and “we’re all better off when we’re all better off” - have also shaped how our team thinks about building culture. I’ve written eight books so far, and each has left some DNA in Citizen University. If you’re looking for a formal bio, a headshot of me, or ways to get in touch, visit this page → Along the way I got a law degree at Harvard and began writing books on public issues. I went to public schools in upstate New York and then to Yale College, after which I moved to Washington D.C. It has also made me want to push my country to live up to the promises of opportunity and justice that drew people like my parents here. It has given me a lifelong sense that every opportunity comes with obligation - to be useful, to contribute, to make all the striving and sacrifice worth it. Being a second-generation American has defined my worldview. And I’d like to hear the what and why of yours.
I’d like to share the what and the why of my life and my work. I’m Eric Liu, the CEO and co-founder of Citizen University.
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