A post about Kamala Devi Harris is long overdue. Harris was elected US Senator for California in 2016, becoming only the second female African American to serve in the Senate and the first ever South Asian to serve. On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2019 (January 21), she announced her campaign to run for the Democratic nomination for the President of the United States in the 2020 election!
Kamala Harris was born to a Tamil Indian mother (Shyamala Gopalan) and a Jamaican father (Donald Harris) in Oakland, California. Both of her parents were immigrants. Her mother immigrated to the US from Chennai in 1960, and her father immigrated from Jamaica in 1961. She grew up going to a black Baptist church and a Hindu temple. The family lived in Berkeley, California. After her parents divorced, she and her sister, Maya, moved to Montreal, Québec, Canada with their mother. Harris returned to the United States to attend Howard University, where she became an Alpha Kappa Alpha. She moved back to California to earn her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
Side note: Maya Lakshmi Harris is also an accomplished lawyer and is a political analyst for MSNBC. She was one of Hillary Clinton's senior policy advisors during her 2016 presidential campaign. She is currently campaign chairwoman for her sister's campaign for president.
She was the first African American and first woman yo serve as Attorney General of the state of California, and she is now vying to be the first Indian and first African American woman to serve as President of the United States!
Find out ore about Senator Harris at https://www.harris.senate.gov. Support her campaign at https://kamalaharris.org.
