The Texas Tribune Festival is one of the nation’s largest, most buzzworthy annual gatherings.
This year, we’ll be taking our conference virtual — and creating a month of programming just for you.
Join us in September for compelling sessions and insightful conversations on how the coronavirus has affected the election cycle, the legislative session, education, health care and the economy — not to mention immigration, energy, criminal justice and (lest we forget) redistricting.
How will the way we live and work be different — for a while, or forever? Most critically: What are we learning from this?
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These are just some of the incredible speakers who will be joining us for our virtual festival this September.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Yamiche Alcindor, White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour
- Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times
- Julián Castro, Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Pamela Colloff, Senior Reporter at ProPublica and Staff Writer at the New York Times Magazine
- U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Houston
- Wendy Davis, Democratic Candidate for Texas' 21st Congressional District
- Arne Duncan, Former U.S. Secretary of Education
- U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso
- Susan Glasser, Staff Writer at The New Yorker
- Glenn Hegar, Texas Comptroller
- Lina Hidalgo, Harris County Judge
- Eric Holder, Former U.S. Attorney General
- Peter Hotez, Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and Co-Director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children's Hospital
- State Rep. Dan Huberty, R-Houston, Chair of the House Public Education Committee
- Eric Johnson, Mayor of Dallas
- Renu Khator, Chancellor of the University of Houston System and President of the University of Houston
- Mike Morath, Texas Education Commissioner
- Beto O'Rourke, Former U.S. Rep., D-El Paso
- Samantha Power, Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
- Betsy Price, Mayor of Fort Worth
- State Rep. Four Price, R-Amarillo
- Cecile Richards, Co-Founder of Supermajority
- U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin
- Margaret Spellings, Former U.S. Secretary of Education
- Sylvester Turner, Mayor of Houston