And from my mother, Maya and I learned the same." Shyamala graduated from the University of Delhi when she was 19 years old in 1958, and immigrated to America to pursue a doctorate in endocrinology at University of California Berkeley, where she met Donald J. Harris. "She and my father ...
If politics is a game, Kamala Harris has proven herself to be a savvy player, forging a career that has gone from one first to another. The child of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, she was the first woman district attorney for San Francisco; the first woman to serve as Californ...
Harris grew up in a household with a Jamaican father and Indian mother. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, emigrated from India in 1960 to attend the University of California, Berkeley and pursue a doctorate in endocrinology. Her father, Donald Harris, emigrated from Jamaica in 1961 to also attend ...
Kamala Harris could make history during the 2024 presidential election, but who are her parents, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan and Donald Harris? Here's what to know.
“I was privileged with having Senator Kamala Harris in my life for a long time, as a native of California,” she says. “I grew up in my Indian immigrant father and Jewish-American mother’s Irish pub in Los Angeles, so having someone with her story just paved t...
Kamala Harris credits her parents' activism during the civil rights movement for her political career.
Image:Ella Emhoff with her father, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden at his inauguration. Pic: AP Speaking to Vogue alongside the designer shortly after the inauguration, she said there was "some anticipation" about what she, Jill Biden, Ms Harris and her niece Meena Harris were...
Get to know new vice president Kamala Harris' parents Shyamala Gopalan and Donald J. Harris, where they immigrated from, how her mom died, and what Kamala's relationship is like with her father.
Harris, who was born in 1964, is the child of an Indian mother and Jamaican father who divorced when she was in elementary school. She married later in life, at 49, to a man of a different race who practices a different faith. She is a stepmom to the two children from his first ...
Both of my grandmothers had the strongest influence on my early upbringing(“not to exclude, of course, the influence of my dear mother”Miss Beryl” and loving father “Maas Oscar”). Miss Chrishy was the disciplinarian, reserved and stern in look, firm with ‘the strap’, but capable of...