Anthony Harmon serves as the United Federation of Teachers' director of parent and community outreach; the director of Dial-A-Teacher, the union's homework help service; the director of the Albert Shanker Scholarship Fund; and the chair of the UFT African Heritage Committee. Harmon was elected as an AFT vice president in July 2018. In addition to his UFT duties, Harmon still manages to serve in many other capacities, including as the president of the New York City chapter of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, a member of the national board of directors of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, the president of the New York branch of the NAACP, a delegate to the New York City Central Labor Council, a member of the board of directors of the New York State United Teachers, a member of the board for the Greater New York Labor and Religion Coalition, a member of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS and a delegate to the AFL-CIO convention. In May 2018, he was elected as executive vice president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, one of the constituency groups of the AFL-CIO.