Eric Liu is the author of Guiding Lights: The People Who Lead Us Toward Our Purpose in Life. Guiding Lights was named the Official Book of National Mentoring Month. He is a Fellow at the New America Foundation and writes for Slate magazine. He is the author of The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker, a New York Times Notable Book featured in the PBS documentary Matters of Race.

Eric served as a speechwriter for President Clinton in the first term and as White House deputy domestic policy adviser in the second. After the White House, he was an executive at the digital media company RealNetworks. A frequent commentator on CNN, CNBC and MSNBC, Eric is one of GQ magazine's "Pundits We Like" and was cited by A. Magazine as one of the nation's 25 most influential Asian Americans. In 2002, Eric was named by the World Economic Forum as one of the 100 "Global Leaders of Tomorrow." He now lives with his daughter in Seattle, where he teaches at the University of Washington's Evans School of Public Affairs and hosts a local NPR interview show called "The Power of Voice" and a cable interview program called Seattle Voices.

Eric speaks regularly at conferences, corporations and campuses around the country. He also serves on the boards of numerous national and local civic organizations, including the Seattle Public Library, the Seattle Center Foundation, Common Cause, Demos, the Asian Community Leadership Foundation, and the League of Education Voters. He is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School.

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