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AFT Book Club: A Conversation with Anand Giridharadas
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November 8, 2026 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM EST

AFT Book Club: A Conversation with Anand Giridharadas

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About This Webinar

What can the death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway tell us about public safety, mental health and belonging in America?

Join AFT President Randi Weingarten for a conversation with journalist and bestselling author Anand Giridharadas about his new book, Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City.

Beginning with the 2023 death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway, Giridharadas looks beyond the headlines to tell a deeply reported story about the people involved and a city grappling with public safety, mental health, homelessness and care for one another.

Together, Weingarten and Giridharadas will discuss what this story reveals about how we see our neighbors and respond to people in crisis. For educators and others who serve their communities, it’s a chance to consider how we make room for complexity, empathy and thoughtful conversation when an event divides public opinion.

Learn more about the AFT Book Club. Register for all sessions here.

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Speakers

Anand Giridharadas, Author

ANAND GIRIDHARADAS is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Persuaders and Winners Take All, as well as The True American, and India Calling. A former foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times for more than a decade, he has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Time and is the publisher of the newsletter The.Ink. He is an on-air political analyst for MS NOW. He has received the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, the Porchlight Business Book of the Year Award, Harvard University’s Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Culture, and the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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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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