Kamala Harris

Born October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California, Kamala Harris is the daughter of two immigrants. Kamala and her younger sister Maya were raised by their mother when her parents got divorced. Growing up under the roof of a strong, independent woman inspired Kamala to make it her life’s work uplifting women and fighting injustice. From a very young age, Kamala recalls attending social justice marches, saying that she “had a stroller-eye view of the Civil Rights movement.”

Kamala earned an undergraduate degree at Howard University, before earning her law degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law and started her career in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office. By 2003, she was elected the District Attorney of the City and County of San Francisco. Kamala became the first African-American and the first woman to serve as California’s Attorney General in 2010. Later in the term, Kamala married lawyer Doug Emhoff and became a stepmother to his two children. In 2016, she was elected as a Senator of California making her the second African-American woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.

After conceding her presidential campaign in 2019, President-Elect Joseph Biden chose Kamala as his running mate for the 2020 Presidential election.

On January 20, 2021, Kamala Harris became the first woman, the first person of Asian-American descent, the first Indian-American, the first African American woman, and the first graduate of an HBCU to be sworn in as the Vice President of the United States of America. Serving alongside President Joe Biden, Kamala has focused her efforts to get America vaccinated, reduce child poverty, rebuild the nation’s economy and lift communities that were once forgotten.