Join Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for a keynote conversation and Q&A with California senator Laphonza Butler. Butler is a lifelong advocate for women and working people and has been engaged with politics for decades, including her efforts as a labor organizer and president of SEIU Local 2015, representing nursing home and home-care workers; leadership of the SEIU CA State Council; work as a political strategist on state and national campaigns; and presidency of EMILYs List, the nation’s largest organization dedicated to electing women to public office. Appointed to the United States Senate in 2023, she is the first openly LGBTQ person to represent California in the Senate and the first Black lesbian to openly serve in Congress. Her priorities as senator “are fighting for the American worker, the fundamental freedoms of all people, and the future that our next generations deserve.”
This event is cosponsored by the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School.