Aug 12, 2020 · While Kamala Harris kept in touch with her father and his family, it would be her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, who played a more significant role in shaping her girls. As a result, Harris and her sister Maya had a rich, multicultural childhood.

Oct 9, 2024 · She described how the Harris women – mother Shyamala, sister Maya, and Kamala herself — lived in a modest bungalow apartment above a daycare center. The nursery was run by a revered figure in the neighborhood, Mrs. Shelton who, according to …

Aug 12, 2020 · Kamala Harris as a child at her mother's lab in Berkeley, California. (Kamala Harris campaign via AP)

Kamala Devi Harris was born in Oakland, California, 1964 to biologist Shyamala Gopalan and economist Donald J. Harris.The Harris family moved to various locations in the Midwestern United States from 1966 to 1970, when she moved back to California. At the age of twelve, she moved to Montreal, Quebec, where she attended school through her first year of college.

Jan 20, 2021 · Their first child, Kamala Devi, was born in Oakland in 1964, the same year Shyamala earned her PhD. Harris’ mother chose her name in tribute to her Indian heritage.

Jan 10, 2019 · As a child, she lived in Oakland and Montreal before earning her bachelor’s degree at Howard University and her law degree at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law in San...

Oct 20, 2024 · Kamala Harris was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California, to immigrant parents—her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a breast cancer researcher from India, and her father, Donald Harris, was a Jamaican economist.

Jul 21, 2024 · As a child, Kamala Harris lived with her mother and sister in the top unit of this West Berkeley Bancroft Way property. Photo: Steven Finacom. Anirvan Chatterjee, a historian of Berkeley’s South Asian communities, said many aspects of Harris’ parents’ story were unusual.

Jan 9, 2019 · In her new book, "The Truths We Hold: An American Journey," Kamala Harris tells the story of her rise from a young girl growing up in Oakland to her 2016 election as U.S. senator from...

Maya Harris is the younger sister of Kamala Harris. She was born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and Montreal. [27] She had her only child Meena Harris at the age of 17. Harris completed a Bachelor of Arts at University of California, Berkeley and earned a J.D. degree from Stanford Law School. [28]