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Maya Lakshmi Harris was born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and Montreal, Quebec.She is the younger child of Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a breast cancer researcher who emigrated from Madras (now known as Chennai), India, in 1958; and Donald Harris, a Jamaican-born Stanford University economics professor, now emeritus. [2]
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]
The vice president was born to Shyamala, an immigrant from India, and her father, Donald J. Harris, on Oct. 20, 1964. Three years later, they welcomed their second daughter, Maya , in 1967.
Harris's childhood home on Bancroft Way in Berkeley. In 1966, the Harris family moved to Champaign, Illinois (where Kamala's younger sister Maya was born), when her parents took positions at the University of Illinois. [16] [17] The family moved around the Midwest, with both parents working at multiple universities in succession over a brief ...
"My mother had been raised in a household where political activism and civic leadership came naturally," Kamala Harris wrote in her 2019 autobiography, The Truths We Hold. "From both of my ...
Harris, born October 20, 1964, is the older daughter of Donald J. Harris, an economist from Jamaica, and Shyamala Gopalan, a breast cancer researcher from India. She has one sister, Maya Harris ...
Maya Harris, sister of US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, does a stage check on the fourth and last day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the ...
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."