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Harris and Shyamala had two children: Kamala Harris, the 49th vice president of the United States; and Maya Harris, a lawyer and political commentator; [18] [41] the couple divorced in 1971. [42] The children visited Harris's family in Jamaica as they grew up. [4] [43] [44] Harris dedicated his 1978 book to his daughters. [4]
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.
[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 ...
Kamala Harris credits her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, with informing her worldview and inspiring her to break glass ceilings in her own career.. The vice president was born to Shyamala, an ...
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
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]
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 ...
But when Harris was in elementary school, she said, her parents split up. “It was mostly my mother who raised us,” she said. According to Harris’ 2019 memoir , Donald Harris continued to see ...