Kamala D. Harris is the Vice President of the United States of America. 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.
Vice President Harris was born in Oakland, California to parents who emigrated from India and Jamaica. She graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of Law.
Vice President Harris with her mother, Shyamala
“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.’”
FULL INTERVIEW: The former campaign manager for Kamala Harris when she was San Francisco District Attorney has no doubt the VP will be a great leader.
She says the race for San Francisco DA was rough one. They were just hoping for a win, the thought of Harris being sworn in as VP of the United States was not on their mind. When I took over as campaign manager it was Labor Day, recalled Prozan. She was 8 points in the polls and nobody was taking her seriously. There was no time to talk about Washington. There was time to talk about which Muni stop she was going to work, which fundraising calls she had to make that day, and what she had to do to secure the endorsements and the money and the support she needed to win her first race.
After half a century as a senator and vice president, Biden assumes the presidency at a time when the country faces health, economic and societal crises.
Among a small group watching from the VIP section were fellow trailblazers, including President Obama, the first and only Black president, and his wife, Michelle Obama, and Hillary Clinton, the first woman to win a major party’s presidential nomination. Harris’ family, including her two adult stepchildren and her sister, Maya, stood nearby the most diverse family ever to reach the national political stage.
“Watching this with my 6-year-old daughter, who has known Kamala her whole life, is more moving than I thought it would be,” said Laphonza Butler, a former senior aide to Harris. “To see Maya in the background, to see Doug standing with pride, makes me think of the sacrifices of so many, past and present, on whose shoulders she stands.”
SAN FRANCISCO From San Francisco district attorney to California attorney general, U.S. senator, and now the first Black and Asian woman elected vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris has a history of breaking barriers.
Long before entering politics, Harris early childhood in Berkeley gave her an opportunity to be an agent of change when she was bused across town to be part of the second class to integrate her public school, Thousand Oaks Elementary School.
Harris first ran for public office as San Francisco District Attorney in 2002, defeating her former boss to become the first African-American woman to serve as district attorney in California. Harris is biracial, identifying as both Black and Indian.
NEW DELHI – Just how did the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California became one of the country’s most effective power players? Through the human touch, by turning defeat