Citizen Who Hits Arizona

Eric Liu’s One-Man Show Gets a Second Performance—and Continues to Evolve

Eric Liu is an author, educator, and civic entrepreneur. But in his one-man show, Citizen Who, he is also a storyteller, a violin player, and an actor who embodies the lives, disappointments, and dreams of a diverse group of people in order to explore basic notions about what it means to be an American.

The second performance of Citizen Who, which Liu wrote and produced as part of his fellowship at the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University, took place in front of a full house at the Stage …

You Have a Better Pledge of Allegiance?

Zócalo Invites Naysayers To Offer Some Alternatives

Citizen Who, a one-man show written and performed by Eric Liu in a project for the Center For Social Cohesion, asks a lot of questions about what it means to …

Citizen Liu in Citizen Who

A Civic Entrepreneur Tackles Citizenship In a New Debut

The premiere performance of Citizen Who—a one-man show written and produced as part of author and civic entrepreneur Eric Liu’s fellowship at the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State …

As American As …

When Do You Feel Most American?

Whether your American citizenship is a gift of birth and blood or a hard-earned right or a little bit of both, it can often be easy to pick and choose …

Citizen Who Goes To Class

My Conversation on Citizenship With High School Kids In Seattle

As I’ve been developing the Citizen Who project, I’ve struck up a wide range of conversations about the content of citizenship. A couple of months ago, I spoke at a …

What If No One Were Born American?

Eric Liu On the Duties of Citizenship

At the launch of the Zócalo Public Square/Cal Humanities “Searching for Democracy” series, author, civic entrepreneur, and former Clinton speechwriter Eric Liu, a fellow at the Center for Social Cohesion, …