Kamala Harris has signed with a top Hollywood talent agency as she plots her next move.
The former vice president has recently been seen taking in Broadway shows, attending a Lakers game, and checking out damage from the Los Angeles wildfires.
Now she has signed on with Creative Artists Agency, which represents top Hollywood stars including Beyoncé, Morgan Freeman, Glen Powell and Nicole Kidman. She also joins former President Joe Biden, who signed the agency last month.
Her agents will focus on getting her speaking gigs and publishing opportunities.
‘CAA will work closely with Harris on her post-White House initiatives, creating strategic opportunities that expand her platform in support of the issues she has championed throughout decades-long career in public service,’ the agency said.
Harris is weighing her next career move, which include a possible run for governor of California next year.
CAA heads Richard Lovett, Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane are prominent Democratic fundraisers.
The agency represented Harris before she became vice president.
CAA helped her land two book deals: 2019’s The Truths We Hold: An American Journey and 2009’s Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer, which served as a launch pad for a book tour and presidential bid.
For her next career move, Harris also is considering a 2028 White House bid or a role outside of elective office, a person with knowledge of her deliberations told The New York Times.
Since losing the November election to Donald Trump, Harris has taken a step back from public life.
She returned to California in January after her tenure as vice president was up.
She has made a few public appearances. That includes meeting with evacuees at a Red Cross shelter and touring wildfire damage in Pacific Palisades, and she attended an L.A. Lakers and Golden State Warriors basketball game with husband Doug.
The couple, who are splitting their time between Los Angeles and New York, also took in a few Broadway shows recently: ‘A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical’ and ‘Gypsy.’
During her visit to wildfire areas, reporters in Los Angeles asked her if she was running for governor of the state.
‘I am here, and would be here, regardless of the office I hold, because it is the right thing to do,’ she replied.
‘I have been home for two weeks and three days. My plans are to be in touch with my community, to be in touch with the leaders and figure out what I can do to support them,’ she noted.
The Democratic field is frozen, waiting for her to decide. Current Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is term limited.
A poll from Emerson College Polling, Insider California Politics and The Hill earlier this month found that Harris would be the front-runner in a Democratic primary, receiving 57 percent of the vote.
In her November 6 concession speech, Harris signaled she would stay in the public eye.
‘This is not a time to throw up our hands. This is a time to roll up our sleeves,’ she said. ‘This is a time to organize, to mobilize and to stay engaged for the sake of freedom and justice and the future that we all know we can build together.’
Some Republicans are chomping at the bit to take her on.
Richard Grenell, Trump’s ‘special missions’ envoy and interim executive director of the Kennedy Center, said he would challenge her for governor.
‘If Kamala Harris runs for governor — I believe that she has such baggage and hundreds of millions of dollars in educating the voters of how terrible she is — that it’s a new day in California, and that the Republican actually has a shot,’ Grenell told reporters earlier this month. ‘And I wouldn’t say no.’
Meanwhile, Harris will soon be honored with the Chairman’s Award at the NAACP Image Awards later this month.
It’s given to individuals who ‘excel in public service and leverage their unique platforms to ignite and drive meaningful change.’
She will accept it in her first TV appearance since leaving office on February 22.