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AFT Book Club: A Conversation with Cristina Jiménez
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March 22, 2026 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM EDT

AFT Book Club: A Conversation with Cristina Jiménez

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About This Webinar

Join AFT President Randi Weingarten for a powerful conversation with MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and community organizer Cristina Jiménez about her national bestselling memoir, Dreaming of Home: How We Turn Fear into Pride, Power, and Real Change.

Jiménez, cofounder of United We Dream—the largest immigrant youth–led network in the United States—has been a leading voice in the fight for immigrant rights and the fight to secure DACA. In Dreaming of Home, she shares her journey from arriving in the United States from Ecuador as an undocumented teenager to becoming a national leader in a movement that changed the lives of millions.

Together, Weingarten and Jiménez will explore themes of identity, belonging and collective action—and how young people organizing together transformed fear and isolation into pride, power and lasting change.

Join us for an inspiring conversation about storytelling, activism and the power of communities to shape a more just future.

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Speakers

Cristina Jiménez, Activist and Author

Cristina Jiménez is an award-winning community organizer, bestselling author, and a leading voice in movements for social justice. She is Co-Founder and former Executive Director of United We Dream, the largest immigrant youth-led organization in the country. Jiménez is the Director of Shared Future, a new national initiative seeking to build a consensus on what unites us, immigrants and non-immigrants, as Americans. She received a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship and a spot on the 2018 TIME 100 Most Influential People List. Jiménez came to the U.S from Ecuador in 1998 and grew up undocumented in Queens, N.Y.

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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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