With a rapidly shifting political landscape and a world increasingly in flux, there’s no shortage of big issues for Texans to reckon with together when we gather at this year’s Texas Tribune Festival.
Among the influential voices joining our lineup in downtown Austin September 24-26 are Marjorie Taylor Greene, former U.S. Representative, R-Georgia; Pete Sessions, U.S. Representative, R-Waco; Annette Gordon-Reed, Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University; and Amy Webb, CEO of Future Today Strategy Group.
Previously one of President Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters, Greene resigned from Congress in late 2025 after a significant public break with the president. A 28-year congressional veteran, Sessions is a Republican insider bringing deep institutional knowledge to a rapidly moving Washington. As America marks its 250th anniversary, renowned historian Gordon-Reed explores the nation’s founding contradiction with her new book, “Jefferson on Race: A Reader.” And Webb, one of the nation’s leading quantitative futurists, helps us understand the technological forces reshaping nearly every aspect of our lives.
