Speakers

Mayor of Austin

White House Correspondent for the PBS Newshour and Host of Washington Week

National Correspondent for TIME

State Senator

State Representative

Senior Opinion Writer and Columnist at the Boston Globe

Editor of the Dallas Morning News Education Lab

Politics Reporter for The Texas Tribune

Superintendent of Newton Independent School District

Student Athlete

Mack Begg’s Grandmother and Guardian

White House Reporter for the Wall Street Journal

Presidential Historian for NBC News

Reporter at The Marshall Project

State Senator

Senior Politics Reporter at HuffPost

Reporting Fellow for The Texas Tribune

NBA Hall of Famer

U.S. Representative

CNN Presidential Historian, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University

Health and Human Services Reporter for The Texas Tribune

Travis County Judge

Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy at Texas Southern University

State Representative

Land Commissioner of Texas

U.S. Secretary of Education

Columnist at The Bulwark and CNN Contributor

U.S. Representative

Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Staff Writer at The Marshall Project

Incoming Editor-in-Chief of The Texas Tribune

James Baker Chair and Associate Dean at the University of Texas School of Law and Co-Founder of Lawfare

Former Governor of New Jersey

Former Mayor of San Antonio and Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Host of The New York Times’ “The Argument” podcast

Senior Reporter at ProPublica and Staff Writer at The New York Times Magazine

Director of Texas Broadband Development Office

U.S. Senator

National Political Reporter for The Washington Post

Director of ‘At the Ready’ and editor-in-chief of the Big Bend Sentinel

U.S. Representative

Editor-at-Large at The Ringer

President and CEO of Cyber Threat Alliance

Founder, Chair and CEO of Dell Technologies

Environment Reporter for The Texas Tribune

Former Chief Political Analyst for ABC News and Founder of CountryOverParty

Senior Political Correspondent for the Washington Examiner

State Representative

Founder of Elias Law Group and Democracy Docket

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy at the U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Representative

Urban Affairs Reporter for The Texas Tribune

Energy and Economy Reporter for The Texas Tribune

Lieutentant Governor of Pennsylvania

Editor of the Austin American-Statesman

U.S. Representative

Film Subject of “At the Ready”

Senior Fellow with R Street’s Energy & Environmental Policy Team and Former Director of ERCOT’s Independent Market Monitor

Former White House Press Secretary and Senior Counsel at Bully Pulpit Interactive

Superintendent of Aldine Independent School District

Sports columnist for the Austin American-Statesman

Senior Global Affairs Analyst for CNN

U.S. Representative

State Representative

Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University

Contributing Writer at The New Yorker

Co-host of the “Majority 54” podcast

Associate Attorney General of the United States

Former Texas Supreme Court Justice

Capitol Hill Correspondent, NBC News & MSNBC

Editor-at-Large at The 19th

Staff Writer at The New York Times Magazine and Creator of "The 1619 Project"

Executive Editor of the Dallas Morning News

Staff Writer at The Atlantic

State Program Director for Connected Nation

Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy

Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

Director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin

Harris County Judge

State Representative

National Investigative Reporter for NBC News and Co-host of the “Southlake” podcast

Co-Director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children's Hospital

Student Athlete

State Senator

Senior Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hunt Companies

Former U.S. Representative

Correspondent at NBC News and Co-host of the “Southlake” podcast

Dallas County Judge

Justice correspondent for National Public Radio

Host of Slate's "A Word" podcast

Executive Chairman of the Serve America Movement and Former U.S. Representative

Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin

Co-host of the “Majority 54” podcast

Texas Higher Education Commissioner

Chancellor of the University of Houston System and President of the University of Houston

U.S Representative

Reporter at El Paso Matters

U.S. Senator

State Representative

President & CEO of Voto Latino

State Representative

National Investigative Reporter for the Washington Post

Senior Editor at Slate

Host of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast

Assistant Professor at University of Michigan Law School

Washington Bureau Chief for The Texas Tribune

President of Baylor University

Public Education Reporter for The Texas Tribune

Author, journalist, former host of Hardball on MSNBC

U.S. Representative

Criminal Justice Reporter for The Texas Tribune

Higher Education Reporter for The Texas Tribune

Host of “American Voices” on MSNBC

Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Times

Writer-at-Large at The Bulwark

Chancellor of the Texas Tech University System

State Representative

Founder & Executive Director of the Austin Justice Coalition

President and CEO of El Paso Matters

Director of the Public Theology Project at Christianity Today

Texas Education Commissioner

Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at New York University School of Law

Chief Correspondent for “PBS NewsHour”

Mayor of San Antonio

Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum

Former U.S. Representative

Breaking News Reporter for The Texas Tribune

State Representative

Washington Bureau Chief for USA Today

Co-host of Showtime’s “The Circus” and host of the “Just Something About Her” podcast

Mayor of Fort Worth

White House Bureau Chief for The Washington Post

Director of the LBJ Urban Lab at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin

Producer of “At the Ready” and Managing Editor of The Big Bend Sentinel

Speaker of the Texas House and State Representative, R-Beaumont

Producer of “At the Ready”

Politics Reporter at The Boston Globe

Politics Reporter for The Texas Tribune

Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development

Executive Editor for The Texas Tribune

CEO and Co-Founder of The 19th

Executive Editor of the Houston Chronicle

Director of News Partnerships for The Texas Tribune

Retired World No. 1 Tennis Player and Founder and Chair of the Andy Roddick Foundation

Republican Strategist and Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff

Senior Washington Correspondent at The Washington Post

MSNBC Anchor and NBC News Senior Business Correspondent

White House Director of Political Strategy and Outreach

El Paso County Judge

Politics reporter at FiveThirtyEight

President of Texas Tech University

Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System

Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University

President of Prairie View A&M University

Former White House Senior Adviser for COVID-19 Response

Staff Writer at The Atlantic

CEO of The Texas Tribune

Correspondent, NBC News & MSNBC

President of Paul Quinn College

Reporter at The 19th

Assistant Dean of Civic Engagement at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin

Guest of the Texas Tribune Festival

President and CEO of TEXAS 2036 and Former U.S. Secretary of Education

Politics Reporter for The Texas Tribune

Author

Contributing Opinion Writer and Host of the Sway podcast at The New York Times

State Representative

State Senator

Producer and Reporter, NBC News

Former President of ProPublica

Senior Editor for the ProPublica-Texas Tribune Investigative Initiative

Former Austin City Council member and 2022 candidate for Texas Senate in District 24

Deputy Editorial Page Editor for the Washington Post

Mayor of Houston

CEO of The LBJ Foundation

U.S. Representative

Mayor of McAllen

Former U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel

Managing Editor of News and Politics for The Texas Tribune

Former State Senator

Founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America

Josey Centennial Professor in Energy Resources and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin

Former Public Health Commissioner of Baltimore

State Representative

Tarrant County Judge

CEO of Hunt Energy Network and Former Chair of the Public Utility Commission of Texas

Staff writer at The New Yorker

Student Athlete