Here's What Hillary Clinton Is Doing Now

From Town & Country

While the democratic candidates for the 2020 election are busy proving themselves, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has moved on to the next phase of her life. Here's what she's doing now:

She's been writing.

In August of 2019, Hillary announced that she'd be teaming up with her daughter Chelsea on a new collection of essays about the women who have inspired them.

"The Book of Gutsy Women is filled with essays that are reflections of our feelings about these women, what we think about them," she explained in the video announcement for the book on her Instagram.

Chelsea added, "It's a continuation of a conversation we've been having my whole life about the women who motivate us and challenge us."

This will hardly be Clinton's first foray into authorship. In addition to her 1995 meditation on society and childrearing, It Takes a Village, (written and published while she was serving as First Lady) Clinton has written three memoirs of her time in the world of politics. Her most recent, 2017's best-selling What Happened, profiled her run for the contentious 2016 presidential election from the media scrutiny she felt, to the mistakes that were made, and how she has dealt with her loss.

"I don't have all the answers and this isn't a comprehensive account of the 2016 race," she wrote. "In this book, I write about moments from the campaign that I wish I could go back and do over. If the Russians could hack my subconscious, they'd find a long list."

She might be breaking into film and TV.

In late May of 2019, sources confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that Hillary and Chelsea were also in talks to team up on a production company for film and television properties. While the talks were, at the time, said to be in early stages, sources said that the goal of the company would be to focus on stories about women.

Should the company come to fruition, Clinton will already have some experience under her belt in the TV arena. In August 2018, she signed on to executive produce a television miniseries called The Woman's Hour with Steven Spielberg's Amblin TV. The show will reportedly be based on the book The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss about the struggle for women's suffrage and the ratification of the 19th Amendment.

She's definitely not running for president

While the ranks of potential democratic presidential candidates have continued to grow, Clinton has firmly established that she won't be throwing her hat into the ring. In March 2019, the former candidate confirmed in a TV interview that she wouldn't be running for the 2020 election, but that she's not just walking away from politics.

"I want to be sure that people understand I'm going to keep speaking out," she told News 12. "I'm not going anywhere."

She founded a political action committee

Just a few months after the 2016 election, Clinton made her first big return to the spotlight in the spring of 2017 when she announced that she is launching a new political organization called Onward Together with a focus on "encouraging people to organize, get involved, and run for office."

In a twitter post announcing the new platform, Clinton said, "This year hasn't been what I envisioned, but I know what I'm still fighting for: a kinder, big-hearted, inclusive America. Onward!"

Per the organization's website, "By encouraging people to organize, get involved, and run for office, Onward Together advances progressive values and works to build a brighter future for generations to come."

Onward Together also works to help support existing Democratic and social action groups including Emerge America, Run for Something, Color of Change, and Swing Left.

The announcement of the PAC came after Clinton had reportedly "all but ruled out" resuming work at her family's foundation. According to multiple sources at the time, the former Secretary of State had made no plans to return to the non-profit, which proved to be so controversial during her presidential campaign.

She has continued to be a public presence for the causes she supports

In March 2019, Clinton attended Selma’s Annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee commemorating the March 7, 1965 attack on a group of activists, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. The march across the bridge ultimately contributed to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the 2019 event marked the 54th anniversary of the history day.

Just days before the march, Clinton received the International Unity Award at the Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King Unity Breakfast in Selma and was inducted into the National Voting Rights Museum Women’s Hall of Fame.

"Don't just come to Selma once a year," Clinton said at the event. "Don't just walk across the bridge. Don't just join hands and sing. We've got to get to work. That means registering each person and persuading them that their future depends on them showing up to vote."

Clinton became increasingly vocal in the second half of 2017, speaking out about the violence in Charlottesville, and against her former opponent and the Republican party as a whole, specifically regarding her concern over the healthcare bill and LGBT rights.

Back in May of that year, she addressed the 2017 graduates at her alma mater, Wellesley College, 48 years after delivering the first-ever Wellesley college student commencement speech. In the talk, she joked that wine is what helped her get through the election loss but also told students that "I believe with all my heart that the future of America, indeed the future of the world, depends on brave, thoughtful people like you insisting on truth and integrity right now every day. You didn't create these circumstances but you have the power to change them."

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