The LBJ School is proud to have been a sponsor of the 2019 Texas Tribune Festival, an annual buzzworthy event on politics and public policy in the heart of downtown Austin. The 2019 festival, which took place in downtown Austin Sept. 26–28, included panels and keynotes with leading policymakers including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice.
A team of 30 LBJ School students formed the heart of the festival's social media coverage, live-tweeting and commenting on events throughout the weekend. Scroll through the hundreds of posts on Twitter and check out a sampling of some of the team's work below.
The LBJ School partnered with TribFest to create special Urban Lab programming in addition to co-sponsoring breakfasts that gave students the opportunity to talk to Austin Mayor Steve Adler and former White House Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri. The school also once again presented a special #TribFest19 edition of political Trivia Night at Scholz Garten with MSNBC and NBC News national political correspondent Steve Kornacki, and a fantastic collection of LBJ faculty and alumni appeared as experts on panels.