William Cope Moyers

William C. Moyers is the vice president of public affairs and community relations at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. As the organization's public advocate, Moyers carries the messages about addiction, treatment, and recovery to audiences everywhere. Using his own story, Moyers highlights the power of addiction and the promise and possibility of recovery from it. He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, and National Public Radio, and his work has been...See more

William C. Moyers is the vice president of public affairs and community relations at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. As the organization's public advocate, Moyers carries the messages about addiction, treatment, and recovery to audiences everywhere. Using his own story, Moyers highlights the power of addiction and the promise and possibility of recovery from it. He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, and National Public Radio, and his work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Newsweek. He has written four books, including Broken, a New York Times bestseller that remains in print. Between 2008 and 2016, Moyers wrote a weekly column on addiction-related issues for Creators Syndicate, based in Los Angeles. Moyers was born in 1959 in Fort Worth, Texas, and was a print reporter in the 1980s and a journalist for CNN until 1995. A year later he joined Hazelden Betty Ford and has been there ever since. Moyers is the father of three adult children. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. See less