Wanda Kagan, a high school friend of Harris, later told CBC News in 2020 that Harris was her best friend and described how she confided in Harris that Kagan had been molested by her stepfather. School, and finally Westmount High School in Westmount, Quebec, graduating in 1981. Harris attended a French-speaking primary school, Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, then F.A.C.E. When she was twelve, Harris and her sister moved with their mother to Montreal, Quebec, where Shyamala had accepted a research and teaching position at the McGill University-affiliated Jewish General Hospital. Harris has said that when she and her sister visited their father in Palo Alto on weekends, other children in the neighborhood were not allowed to play with them because they were black.
Harris has also visited her father's family in Jamaica. Harris has remained in touch with her Indian aunts and uncles throughout her adult life. Gopalan, a retired Indian civil servant whose progressive views on democracy and women's rights impressed her. She says she has been strongly influenced by her maternal grandfather P. As children, she and her sister visited their mother's family in Madras (now Chennai) several times. Their mother introduced them to Hinduism and took them to a nearby Hindu temple, where she occasionally sang. Ī neighbor regularly took the Harris girls to an African American church in Oakland where they sang in the children's choir, and the girls and their mother also frequently visited a nearby African American cultural center. When Harris began kindergarten, she was bused as part of Berkeley's comprehensive desegregation program to Thousand Oaks Elementary School, a public school in a more prosperous neighborhood in northern Berkeley which previously had been 95 percent white, and after the desegregation plan went into effect became 40 percent black. They stayed briefly on Milvia Street in central Berkeley, then at a duplex on Bancroft Way in West Berkeley, an area often called the "flatlands" with a significant black population. Kamala Harris, along with her mother and sister, moved back to California in 1970, while her father remained in the Midwest. The family moved around the Midwest, with both parents working at multiple universities in succession over a brief period. 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. Harris's childhood home on Bancroft Way in Berkeley Harris and Biden were inaugurated on January 20, 2021.Įarly life, family and education (1964–1990) She was selected by Joe Biden to be his running mate, and their ticket went on to defeat the incumbent president and vice president, Donald Trump and Mike Pence, in the 2020 election. Harris sought the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, but withdrew from the race prior to the primaries. She gained a national profile for her pointed questioning of Trump administration officials during Senate hearings, including Trump's second Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused of sexual assault. As a senator, she advocated for healthcare reform, federal de-scheduling of cannabis, a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, the DREAM Act, a ban on assault weapons, and progressive tax reform. senator from California from 2017 to 2021 she defeated Loretta Sanchez in the 2016 Senate election to become the second African-American woman and the first South Asian American to serve in the U.S. She was elected AG of California in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. In 2003, she was elected DA of San Francisco. She began her career in the office of the district attorney (DA) of Alameda County, before being recruited to the San Francisco DA's Office and later the City Attorney of San Francisco's office. senator representing California from 2017 to 2021.īorn in Oakland, California, Harris graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the attorney general (AG) of California from 2011 to 2017 and as a U.S. history, as well as the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. Kamala Devi Harris ( / ˈ k ɑː m ə l ə ˈ d eɪ v i/ ( listen) KAH-mə-lə DAY-vee born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States.
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