Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to union members during the 2022 Constitutional Convention of the United Steelworkers at the MGM Grand Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022.
Friday, Oct. 6, 2023 | 10:34 a.m.
Vice President Kamala Harris will be North Las Vegas next week for a speaking event at College of Southern Nevada about “key issues that disproportionately impact” young people in America, according to her office.
The White House-dubbed “Fight for Our Freedoms” college tour will bring Harris to North Las Vegas on Thursday and is part of a broader effort to mobilize young voters about the Biden administration’s priorities as well as “the ongoing fight for fundamental freedoms and rights,” on issues ranging from reproductive freedom and gun safety to climate action, voting rights, LGBTQ+ rights, mental health and book bans, according to a release from the White House.
The stop at the North Las Vegas CSN campus will mark the eighth stop of the tour, which emphasizes engagements at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as well as Hispanic-serving institutions, community colleges, apprenticeship programs and state schools. In addition to being a community college, CSN is also an accredited Hispanic-serving institution and an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institution.
“This generation is critical to the urgent issues that are at stake right now for our future,” Harris said in a statement. “It is young leaders throughout America who know what the solutions look like and are organizing in their communities to make them a reality. My message to students is clear: We are counting on you, we need you, you are everything.”
A database of Harris' travels as vice president shows this will be her fifth official trip to Las Vegas. The most recent was in August 2022, when she spoke to at a convention of United Steelworkers union members and later met with Nevada state legislators about reproductive freedoms.
