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Donald Jasper Harris was born in Brown's Town, St. Ann Parish, Jamaica, the son of Oscar Joseph Harris and Beryl Christie Harris (née Finegan), [8] [9] who were Afro-Jamaicans. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] As a child, Harris learned the catechism, was baptized and confirmed in the Anglican Church , and served as an acolyte .
Maya Harris is the younger sister of Kamala Harris. She was born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and Montreal. [27] She had her only child Meena Harris at the age of 17. Harris completed a Bachelor of Arts at University of California, Berkeley and earned a J.D. degree from Stanford Law School. [28]
[14] In 1963, they were married without following the convention of introducing Harris to Shyamala's parents beforehand or having the ceremony in her hometown. [8] In the later 1960s, Donald and Shyamala took their daughters, Kamala, then four or five years old, and Maya, two years younger, to newly independent Zambia , where Shyamala's father ...
Here, her family tree—featuring the Harris, Gopalan, and Emhoff families, all the extended family of Kamala Harris: Vice President Harris’s family tree. Design by Michael Stillwell
VP Kamala Harris's mom Shyamala Gopalan was a prominent cancer researcher and her dad Donald Harris a Stanford professor. Here's what to know about her parents.
Related: Kamala Harris' Parents: All About Her Mom Shyamala Gopalan and Dad Donald J. Harris “My mother instilled in my sister, Maya, and me the values that would chart the course of our lives ...
Harris's childhood home at 1227 Bancroft Way in Berkeley, August 2020. Kamala Devi Harris [a] was born in Oakland, California, [3] on October 20, 1964. [4] Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan (1938–2009), was a biologist who arrived in the United States from India in 1958 to enroll in graduate school in endocrinology at the University of California ...
Gopalan and Harris eventually divorced in the early 1970s, when Kamala was 7, but Gopalan continued fighting for racial equality. She mentored students of color, counseled African-American women ...