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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 ...
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]
Kamala Harris is Black, of Jamaican descent, and Indian. Her parents are immigrants. Learn about the vice president’s racial and cultural identity in her own words.
Kamala Harris's father, Donald J. Harris, [10] arrived in the United States from Jamaica in 1961, for graduate study at UC Berkeley, and received a Ph.D. in economics in 1966. [11] Donald Harris and Shyamala Gopalan met in 1962 and were married in 1963. [12] [13] He would become a Stanford University professor of economics in 1972. [14] [15]
Vice President Kamala Harris has faced a barrage of attacks about her race — including one from Donald Trump, who claimed Harris “happened to turn Black ... according to his bio. He was the ...
When Harris married Doug Emhoff in 2014, she placed a flower garland around his neck and had a mangalasutra, a sacred thread worn by Hindu brides, around hers. Both were nods to her Indian heritage.
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.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris details her life as the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India.She was born in Oakland, California, and raised in West Berkeley. [1] [3] She describes her childhood neighborhood as "a close-knit neighborhood of working families who were focused on doing a good job, paying the bills, and being there for one another."