Kamala Harris on Saturday urged Americans to “get started,” as she became the first black woman and the first South American to be elected vice president of the United States. “This choice is so much more than @JoeBiden or me. It is about the soul of America and our willingness to fight for it. We have a lot of work ahead of us. Let’s get started, ”he tweeted.
Kamala Devi Harris was born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California, and raised in a predominantly African-American neighborhood of Berkeley. Her mother, Shyamala, emigrated from India to attend the University of California, Berkeley, where she met Harris’s Jamaican-born father, Donald.
Shyamala built a career as a renowned breast cancer researcher, while Donald became a professor of economics at Stanford University. Harris has said in several speeches that her mother ensured that she and her younger sister Maya maintained ties to their Indian heritage by raising them with Hindu beliefs and bringing them back to their home country every two years.
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Harris attended Westmount High School in Quebec and attended Howard University in Washington, DC and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where she obtained her Juris Doctorate in 1989. After being admitted to the State Bar of California In 1990, Harris began his career. career as an Assistant District Attorney in Alameda County. She became managing attorney for the Career Criminal Unit in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office in 1998, and in 2000 she was appointed head of its Community and Neighborhood Division, during which time she established the first Office of Child Justice in the San Francisco District. state. Harris started as the state attorney general in 2010.
Harris continued her political rise by narrowly beating Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley as California Attorney General in November 2010, making her the first African-American and the first woman to hold the position. After the November 2016 elections, Harris became the second African American woman and the first South Asian American to win a seat in the United States Senate. He even ran in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, but dropped out of the race before the end of the year. In August 2020, Joe Biden announced Harris as a running mate for vice president.
Congressional Leader Rahul Gandhi congratulated Harris by tweeting: “Congratulations Vice President-Elect @KamalaHarris! We are proud that the first woman to serve as the US Vice President has her roots in India. “
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