An Evening With Will Hurd

On April 11th, former Congressman Will Hurd joined us to talk about his new book, American Reboot: An Idealist’s Guide to Getting Big Things Done, a political playbook rooted in “the timeless ideals of bipartisanship, inclusivity, and democratic values.” JR DeShazo, Dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs, moderated the discussion.

About the speaker:
Will Hurd is a former member of Congress, cybersecurity executive, and undercover officer in the CIA. For two decades he’s been involved in the most pressing national security issues challenging the country whether it was overseas in dangerous places, boardrooms of international businesses or the halls of Congress. Hurd is a native of San Antonio and graduate of Texas A&M University. He is a trustee of the German Marshall Fund, board member of OpenAI and managing director at Allen & Company.

About the book:
In American Reboot, Hurd takes on five seismic problems facing a country in crisis: the Republican Party’s failure to present a principled vision for the future; the lack of honest leadership in Washington, DC; income inequality that threatens the livelihood of millions of Americans; US economic and military dominance that is no longer guaranteed; and technological change that will make the last thirty years of advancements seem trivial compared to the next thirty.

Hurd has seen these challenges up close. A child of interracial parents in South Texas, Hurd survived the back alleys of dangerous places as an CIA officer. He carried that experience into three terms in Congress, where he was, for a time, the House’s only Black Republican, representing a 71% Latino swing district in Texas that runs along 820 miles of US-Mexico border. As a cyber security executive, Hurd has worked with entrepreneurs on the cutting edge of technology to anticipate the shockwaves of the future.

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