Seeing the potential of individuals and societies is a specialty of author, educator, and civic entrepreneur Eric Liu. Liu is the founder of the Guiding Lights Network, a mentoring advocacy organization, and the True Patriot Network, dedicated to promoting progressive civic values. He served as a White House speechwriter for President Bill
Clinton and later as the President's deputy domestic policy adviser. His books include The Accidental Asian, a New York Times Notable Book; Guiding Lights, the Official Book of National Mentoring Month; Imagination First, co-authored with Scott Noppe- Brandon of the Lincoln Center Institute; and The True Patriot, co-authored with Nick Hanauer.
Eric lives in Seattle, where he teaches civics at the University of Washington and hosts an acclaimed television interview program called “Seattle Voices”. He serves on the Washington State Board of Education, and on the boards of the Seattle Public Library, the League of Education Voters, and the SEIU Healthcare NW Training Partnership.
“To change the world at any scale—even a scale of one—demands a lot. It demands the determination to see a vision through to execution. It demands deep applied understanding of how to move ideas and people across networks and systems. It demands mass and might and relentless effort. But before any of this, changing yourself and the world demands a purpose-fed, positively charged, playful imagination. It demands imagination first.”—Eric Liu and Scott Noppe-Brandon