Madeleine Albright to Campaign for Hillary Clinton in Alexandria

ALEXANDRIA, VA -- Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will campaign for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Tuesday in Alexandria, the Clinton campaign announced.

Albright was the first woman to become the U.S. Secretary of State, in 1997. She is currently chair of the Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy firm in Washington, D.C., and is a professor of International Relations at Georgetown University. She holds a PhD from Columbia University; in addition to many honorary degrees, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012 by President Obama. She serves as a director on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations. You can follow her on Twitter here.

From the campaign:

"Today, Tuesday, August 30, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will campaign for Hillary Clinton in Alexandria. Albright will join Hillary for Virginia organizers and volunteers at a phone bank to mobilize Democrats as part of the Clinton campaign's nationwide effort to register and commit to vote three million Americans ahead of November.

At the event, Albright will contrast Clinton and Kaine's vision for an inclusive America that is stronger together with the many ways Donald Trump's candidacy has normalized hate and empowered fringe elements of our society. She will discuss how Clinton and Kaine will work with our allies to keep us safe, while Trump remains temperamentally unfit to be president and has repeatedly praised Vladimir Putin, parroted Putin's talking points, and has yet to answer serious questions hovering over his campaign's disturbing connections to pro-Kremlin elements."

Albright will participate in a phone bank Tuesday at 4 p.m. at the campaign office at 3543 W. Braddock Road, Suite D1.

PHOTO: Madeleine Albright/official U.S. Secretary of State photo