William Cope 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 message 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. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Newsweek. William has written four books, including Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption, a New York Times bestseller. 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 the staff at (then) Hazelden and has been there ever since. Moyers and his wife, Nell Hurley, live in St. Paul, Minnesota. Between them they share four adult children.
