Event parking info
Adjacent to Ford Alumni Center is Columbia Parking Garage, which you can access via East 13th Avenue. This map shows the location of Columbia Parking Garage; it is located next to the circled number 37. There is an attendant on site Monday through Friday, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Prices range from $1 to $3 per hour or a daily maximum of $12. From 6 p.m. to 11 p.m., the garage will be automated and operate without an attendant.

Livestream and recording
The event will be livestreamed on the UO Channel at this link, and the video will be posted on this page at a later date.

Randi Weingarten is president of the 1.6 million-member American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO. Prior to her election as AFT president in 2008, Weingarten served for 12 years as president of the United Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 2, representing approximately 200,000 educators in the New York City public school system, as well as home child care providers and other workers in health, law and education.

In 2013, the New York Observer named Weingarten one of the most influential New Yorkers of the past 25 years. Washington Life magazine included Weingarten on its 2013 Power 100 list of influential leaders. She has launched major efforts to place education reform high on the nation’s and her union’s agendas, including creation of the AFT Innovation Fund, which supports sustainable, innovative and collaborative education reform projects developed by members and their local unions.

In 2012-13, Weingarten served on an education reform commission convened by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which made a series of recommendations to improve teaching and learning. She was appointed to the Equity and Excellence Commission, a federal advisory committee chartered by Congress to examine and make recommendations concerning the disparities in educational opportunities that give rise to the achievement gap. For 10 years, while president of the UFT, Weingarten chaired New York City’s Municipal Labor Committee, an umbrella organization for the city’s 100-plus public sector unions, including those representing higher education and other public service employees. As chair of the MLC, she coordinated labor negotiations and bargaining for benefits on behalf of the MLC unions’ 365,000 members. From 1986 to 1998, Weingarten served as counsel to UFT president Sandra Feldman, taking a lead role in contract negotiations and enforcement, and in lawsuits in which the union fought for adequate school funding and building conditions. A teacher of history at Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood from 1991 to 1997, Weingarten helped her students win several state and national awards debating constitutional issues.

Weingarten’s column “What Matters Most” appears in the New York Times’ Sunday Review the third Sunday of each month. Weingarten holds degrees from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the Cardozo School of Law. She worked as a lawyer for the Wall Street firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan from 1983 to 1986. She is an active member of the Democratic National Committee and numerous professional, civic and philanthropic organizations.