Her parents were activists, instilling Vice President Harris with a strong sense of justice. Gopalan, a breast cancer scientist and pioneer in her own right, received her doctorate the same year Vice President Harris was born.

Vice President Harris and her sister, Maya Harris, were inspired by their mother, Shyamala Gopalan. “My mother would look at me and she’d say, ‘Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you are not the last.’” She graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of Law. Vice President Harris was born in Oakland, California to parents who emigrated from India and Jamaica. She was elected Vice President after a lifetime of public service, having been elected District Attorney of San Francisco, California Attorney General, and United States Senator. Harris is the Vice President of the United States of America. 'You're a rock, not just for our dad, but for three generations of our big, blended family,' she said, adding that there will be 'no union more perfect' than the one that brings them to the kitchen table 'every Sunday night.Kamala D. 'To my brother and me, you will always be Momala, the world's greatest stepmom,' Ella said Wednesday. Ella EmhoffĮlla Emhoff is one of Douglas Emhoff's two children from his previous marriage. 'And now that I'm a mom, you're showing my daughters and so many girls around the world who look like them what's possible and what it's like to move through the world as fierce, formidable, phenomenal women in their own unique way,' Meena said Wednesday. 'The inspiration in writing the book was really about celebrating the stories that I would hear as a kid that were incredibly important to me, which were these early lessons around things like community organizing, around coalition building, around leaning on your community, and creating a space for your community to come together to make it even better,' Meena told Business Insider in June. She also wrote a children's book called 'Kamala and Maya's Big Idea' about her aunt and mother. She graduated from Stanford University and received her law degree from Harvard Law School.īut she branched out on her own, launching a social justice organization called Phenomenal Women Action Campaign. Like her mother and aunt, Meena is a lawyer.

'You're my role model, who taught me I could do or be anything I wanted,' Meena said. Meena Harris affectionately called Kamala Harris her 'auntie' during the DNC. Meena was four years old when she introduced Maya to her husband, lawyer Tony West, after Meena had played a game of hide-and-seek with him at Stanford, according to the Stanford Lawyer.Įarlier this year, Maya announced she has been battling lupus for the past three decades.

Maya gave birth at age 17 to her daughter, Meena Harris. 'The fact that she has volunteered to work on this campaign at such a high level, and she's exactly who she's always been - she works around the clock and she's probably the hardest, if not one of the hardest working people on the campaign - I feel very blessed.' 'I think most people who know Maya will tell you she's one of the smartest people they know,' Kamala said in an interview last year with Politico. She graduated from Stanford Law School and the University of California-Berkeley. She also served as an adviser on Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential race and, prior to that, headed up the northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Maya was the campaign chairwoman of Harris' presidential bid.

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