Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician and lawyer who has served as the junior United States Senator from California since 2017.
Harris was born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California. Her mother was a breast cancer scientist who emigrated from India and her father is a Stanford University professor emeritus of economics who emigrated from British Jamaica in 1961. Harris only has one sister, Maya.
Throughout kindergarten she was part of the Berkeley’s Comprehensive desegregation program
to Thousand Oaks School. Kamala was seven years old when her parents got divorced. When she
visited her dad on the weekends in Palo Alto, the kids in the neighborhood were not allowed to
play with her because she was black.
Thereupon, when she graduated from high school she attended Howard University, a historically
black university in Washington D.C. Harris graduated from Howard in 1986 with a degree in
political and economics.
In 1990, she was hired as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County, California. Time passed,
and in August 2000, Harris took a new job at the City Hall in San Francisco. She ran the Family
and Children’s Services Division representing child abuse and neglect cases.
Hence, Mrs. Harris became district attorney from 2004 to 2011. After that, she became attorney
general of California from 2011 to 2017.
On 2017, Harris was endorsed in the United States senate. Harris is the Democrat candidate for
Vice-President in the 2020 election.
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