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AFT Book Club: Kamala Harris in Conversation with Randi Weingarten
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February 23, 2026 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM EST

AFT Book Club: Kamala Harris in Conversation with Randi Weingarten

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About This Webinar

Join AFT President Randi Weingarten for a special AFT Book Club conversation with Kamala Harris, 49th Vice President of the United States, about her memoir, 107 Days.

In 107 Days, Harris reflects on an extraordinary moment in American democracy: the period after President Biden stepped aside, her emergence as the Democratic nominee for president, and the intense days leading up to the 2024 election. The book captures the urgency, responsibility, and resolve required to lead during a defining moment, and the people and values that shaped those decisions.

Together, Harris and Weingarten will discuss leadership under pressure, the role of educators, healthcare workers, public employees, and higher education professionals in sustaining democracy, and Harris’s first stop as the nominee at the AFT National Convention in July 2024. The conversation will explore what those 107 days reveal about public service, collective action, and the work required to strengthen our communities and our country for the fight ahead.

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Speakers

Kamala D. Harris

Kamala D. Harris served as the 49th vice president of the United States from 2021 to 2025—the first woman in American history to hold the office. She began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office before being elected district attorney of San Francisco, where her Back on Track program became a national model for reducing recidivism. As California’s attorney general, Harris prosecuted transnational gangs, big banks that defrauded homeowners, and for-profit colleges that targeted students and veterans. She defended the Affordable Care Act, fought for marriage equality, and pioneered the nation’s first open-data initiative in the criminal justice system. In the United States Senate, Harris fought for civil, immigrant, and voting rights, and gained national recognition for her incisive questioning in committee hearings. As vice president, she led efforts to strengthen global alliances and address child poverty, gun violence, student debt, maternal health, economic opportunity, and reproductive rights—casting more tie-breaking votes than any vice president in history, including for pandemic relief and the largest climate investment ever. Throughout her career, she has always fought for the only client she has ever had: the people.

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President, AFT

RANDI WEINGARTEN is president of the 1.8 million-member AFT, AFL-CIO, which represents teachers; paraprofessionals and school-related personnel; higher education faculty and staff; nurses and other healthcare professionals; local, state and federal government employees; and early childhood educators. The AFT champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for students, their families and communities. The AFT and its members advance these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bargaining and political activism, and especially through members’ work.

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