Kamala Harris (D-CA) watches United States Senate candidate Jacky Rosen (D-NV) speak at DW Bistro as Harris campaigns for Nevada Democratic candidates on the final day of in-person early voting in Nevada on November 02, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller)
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Kamala Harris (D-CA) attends a post-midterm election meeting of Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network in the Kennedy Caucus Room at the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill November 13, 2018, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla)
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Kamala Harris (D-CA) addresses a post-midterm election meeting of Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network in the Kennedy Caucus Room at the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill November 13, 2018, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla)
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Kamala Harris attends a conversation at 92nd Street Y on January 11, 2019, in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris)
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Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks to reporters after announcing her candidacy for President of the United States, at Howard University, her alma mater, on January 21, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Al Drago)
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Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks to her supporters during her presidential campaign launch rally in Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on January 27, 2019, in Oakland, California. (Photo by Mason Trinca)
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Kamala Harris (D-CA) participates in an interview and question-and-answer session with leaders from historically black colleges and universities during a Thurgood Marshall College Fund event at the JW Marriott on February 07, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla)
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Kamala Harris (D-CA) touches former Vice President Joe Biden during the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate on June 27, 2019, in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Drew Angerer)
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Kamala Harris (R) (D-CA) and former Vice President Joe Biden (L) speak as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) looks on during the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate on June 27, 2019, in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Drew Angerer)
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Kamala Harris (D-CA) waves to the crowd as she rides in a car during the SF Pride Parade on June 30, 2019, in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan)
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Kamala Harris speaks onstage at the 2019 ESSENCE Festival Presented By Coca-Cola at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 06, 2019, in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Paras Griffin)
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Democratic presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks onstage during a forum on gun safety at the Iowa Events Center on August 10, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa. (Photo by Stephen Maturen)
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Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) greet each other at the Democratic Presidential Debate at the Fox Theatre on July 31, 2019, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Scott Olson)
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Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks during the Democratic Presidential Debate at Tyler Perry Studios on November 20, 2019, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Alex Wong)
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Kamala Harris (L) (D-CA), hugs Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden after introducing him at a campaign rally at Renaissance High School on March 09, 2020, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Scott Olson)
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Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks at a hearing of the Homeland Security Committee attended by acting United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan at the Capitol Building on June 25, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alexander Drago-Pool)
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Kamala Harris (D-CA), the running mate of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden, attends a coronavirus briefing at a makeshift studio at the Hotel DuPont on August 13, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Drew Angerer)
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Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks on the third night of the Democratic National Convention from the Chase Center on August 19, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Win McNamee)
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Kamala Harris (D-CA) participates in the vice presidential debate against United States Vice President Mike Pence at the University of Utah on October 7, 2020, in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo by Alex Wong)
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Kamala Harris takes the stage before President-elect Biden addresses the nation from the Chase Center on November 07, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis)
Kamala Harris (D-CA) watches United States Senate candidate Jacky Rosen (D-NV) speak at DW Bistro as Harris campaigns for Nevada Democratic candidates on the final day of in-person early voting in Nevada on November 02, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller)
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Kamala Harris (D-CA) attends a post-midterm election meeting of Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network in the Kennedy Caucus Room at the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill November 13, 2018, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla)
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Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks to her supporters during her presidential campaign launch rally in Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on January 27, 2019, in Oakland, California. (Photo by Mason Trinca)
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Kamala Harris (D-CA) participates in an interview and question-and-answer session with leaders from historically black colleges and universities during a Thurgood Marshall College Fund event at the JW Marriott on February 07, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla)
Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks at the National Forum on Wages and Working People: Creating an Economy That Works for All at Enclave on April 27, 2019, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller)
Kamala Harris (D-CA) touches former Vice President Joe Biden during the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate on June 27, 2019, in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Drew Angerer)
Kamala Harris (R) (D-CA) and former Vice President Joe Biden (L) speak as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) looks on during the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate on June 27, 2019, in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Drew Angerer)
Kamala Harris (D-CA) waves to the crowd as she rides in a car during the SF Pride Parade on June 30, 2019, in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan)
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Kamala Harris speaks onstage at the 2019 ESSENCE Festival Presented By Coca-Cola at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 06, 2019, in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Paras Griffin)
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks onstage during a forum on gun safety at the Iowa Events Center on August 10, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa. (Photo by Stephen Maturen)
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Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) greet each other at the Democratic Presidential Debate at the Fox Theatre on July 31, 2019, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Scott Olson)
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Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks during the Democratic Presidential Debate at Tyler Perry Studios on November 20, 2019, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Alex Wong)
Kamala Harris (L) (D-CA), hugs Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden after introducing him at a campaign rally at Renaissance High School on March 09, 2020, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Scott Olson)
Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks at a hearing of the Homeland Security Committee attended by acting United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan at the Capitol Building on June 25, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alexander Drago-Pool)
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Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris take the stage at the Chase Center to address the nation on November 07, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Andrew Harnik-Pool)
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Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks on the third night of the Democratic National Convention from the Chase Center on August 19, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Win McNamee)
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Kamala Harris (D-CA) participates in the vice presidential debate against United States Vice President Mike Pence at the University of Utah on October 7, 2020, in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo by Alex Wong)
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Kamala Harris speaks onstage at the Chase Center before President-elect Joe Biden's address to the nation on November 07, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Win McNamee)
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Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer
(The old approaches to fighting crime just aren't working....)
The old approaches to fighting crime just aren't working. Two-thirds of people released from prison commit another crime within two years. In Smart on Crime, career prosecutor Kamala D. Harris shatters the old distinctions, rooted in false choices and myths, and offers a compelling argument for how to make the criminal justice system truly, not just rhetorically, tough.
(Before Kamala Harris was elected to the vice presidency, ...)
Before Kamala Harris was elected to the vice presidency, she was a little girl who loved superheroes. And when she looked around, she was amazed to find them everywhere! In her family, among her friends, even down the street - there were superheroes wherever she looked.
(Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political ...)
Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth is informed by her upbringing.
Kamala Harris is an American politician and attorney. Since November 2020, Harris is the vice president-elect of the United States, making her the first female vice president and first Black person and Asian American to hold the position. A member of the Democratic Party, she will assume the office on 20 January 2021, alongside President-elect Joe Biden.
Background
Kamala Devi Harris was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California, the United States. Harris is the eldest of two children born to Shyamala Gopalan, a cancer researcher from India, and Donald Harris, an economist from Jamaica. Harris' mother, Shyamala, emigrated from India to attend the University of California, Berkeley, where she met Harris' Jamaican-born father, Donald. Shyamala carved out a career as a renowned breast-cancer researcher, while Donald became a Stanford University economics professor.
When Harris was seven, her parents separated and her mother was given custody of both the children. Subsequently, the sisters and their mother moved to Montreal, Québec, Canada. Her mother also ensured that Harris and her younger sister, Maya, maintained ties to their Indian heritage by raising them with Hindu beliefs and taking them to her home country every couple of years.
Education
Harris learned to speak some French during her time in Quebec and demonstrated her burgeoning political instincts by organizing a protest against a building owner who wouldn't allow neighborhood kids to play on the lawn. Harris studied at Westmount High School in Quebec and later attended Howard University in the United States where she majored in political science and economics.
Returning to the United States to enter Howard University in Washington, D.C., she was elected to the liberal arts student council and joined the debate team, en route to a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and economics. Harris then enrolled at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, earning her Juris Doctor in 1989.
After earning admittance to the State Bar of California in 1990, Harris began her career as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County. She became managing attorney of the Career Criminal Unit in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office in 1998, and in 2000 she was appointed chief of its Community and Neighborhood Division, during which time she established the state's first Bureau of Children’s Justice.
Harris has a reputation for toughness as she prosecuted cases of gang violence, drug trafficking, and sexual abuse. Harris rose through the ranks, becoming district attorney in 2004. She is the first South-Asian and black woman to achieve the position. She was again re-elected in November 2007. As the district attorney, she began a program that offers first-time drug dealers the opportunity to earn high school diplomas and find jobs.
In 2009, Harris got her book Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer published. In the book, she attempted to analyze criminal justice from an economic perspective. Harris continued her political ascent by narrowly beating Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley for California attorney general in November 2010, making her both the first African American and the first woman to hold the position.
After taking office the following year, she demonstrated political independence, rejecting, for example, pressure from the administration of President Barack Obama for her to settle a nationwide lawsuit against mortgage lenders for unfair practices. She quickly made an impact in her role by pulling out of negotiations for a settlement from the country's five largest financial institutions for improper mortgage practices, eventually scoring a $20 million payout in 2012 that was five times the original proposed figure for her state.
Instead, she pressed California’s case and in 2012 won a judgment five times higher than that originally offered. Her refusal to defend Proposition 8 (2008), which banned same-sex marriage in the state, helped lead to it being overturned in 2013. Additional accomplishments include a successful lawsuit against the false advertising of the for-profit Corinthian Colleges chain, as well as the continued legal pursuit of the classified advertising service Backpage, which led to its CEO pleading guilty to facilitating prostitution and money laundering after Harris moved on to the Senate.
In 2012 Harris delivered a memorable address at the Democratic National Convention, raising her national profile. Widely considered a rising star within the party, she was recruited to run for the United States Senate seat held by Barbara Boxer, who was retiring. In early 2015 Harris declared her candidacy, and on the campaign trail, she called for immigration and criminal-justice reforms, increases to the minimum wage, and protection of women’s reproductive rights. She easily won the 2016 election.
After taking office in January 2017, Harris began serving on both the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Judiciary Committee, among other assignments. She became known for her prosecutorial style of questioning witnesses during hearings, which drew criticism - and occasional interruptions - from Republican senators.
In June 2017 she drew particular attention for her questions to United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was testifying before the intelligence committee on alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election; she had earlier called on him to resign. Harris’s memoir, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey was published in January 2019.
On January 21, 2019, during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day interview on Good Morning America, Harris announced she was running for president in 2020. One of the top Democratic candidates, Harris joined a field that already included Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in a bid to push President Donald Trump from the White House after one term.
One week after her GMA announcement, Harris formally kicked off her campaign before an estimated 20,000 supporters at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, California. She remained near the top of the Democratic polls over the following weeks, withstanding the brouhaha that ensued when she admitted to smoking marijuana in a February interview, and another when an animal rights activist confronted her onstage at a political event in June.
Harris stood out as one of the top performers of the first Democratic primary debate in late June, garnering headlines for taking Joe Biden to task over his history of opposing federal busing for school integration. She found herself a target of attacks during the second debate the following month, with Biden and the rest criticizing her healthcare plan and aspects of her record as California attorney general.
Her support in the polls slipping by fall 2019, Harris sought to thrust herself back into the top tier by calling for the impeachment of Trump over his dealings with Ukraine and a focus on women's access to reproductive health care. Meanwhile, her campaign staff reportedly bickered over strategy and the chain of command, the dysfunction noted in a resignation letter from the state operations director that became public via The New York Times. In early December 2019, Harris announced that she was ending her once-promising presidential campaign.
One week after a highly contentious debate between Biden and Trump, Harris and Mike Pence engaged in a far more civil vice presidential debate on October 7, 2020. Still, Harris kept the heat on her opponent by repeatedly attacking his administration's handling of the coronavirus, which had resulted in more than 210,000 American deaths to that point, as well as Republican attempts to ram through the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett shortly before Election Day. Harris also pushed back against Pence's assertions that a President Biden would ban fracking and immediately raise taxes, and defended her own record as California attorney general.
On November 7, 2020, four days after election day, Biden was declared as the 46th president-elect after winning Pennsylvania, making Harris the first female vice president and first Black person and Asian American to hold the position.
That evening, a beaming Harris took the stage at a victory rally in Wilmington, Delaware, her suffragette white pantsuit a nod to the efforts of her predecessors. Harris thanked the voters, her running mate, and her family, with a special acknowledgment of her mother.
(The old approaches to fighting crime just aren't working....)
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Religion
Harris was raised in a multifaith family. As a child, Harris went to both a Black Baptist church and a Hindu temple - embracing both her South Asian and Black identities. Harris is a Baptist Christian, holding membership in the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco.
Politics
Kamala Harris is a Democrat. She supports a "political solution" to the war in Afghanistan and wants to end the United States' military involvement in the country. She voted against a Senate resolution condemning Trump's withdrawal of the United States troops from Syria. She opposed Trump's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal. She's said that Trump "got punked" by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
She opposes the United States' support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen because Congress never approved American involvement in the conflict. Harris is a strong supporter of the Israeli government's close ties to the United States, calling the bond between the two countries "unbreakable." She told a 2017 gathering of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee that she would "do everything in my power to ensure broad and bipartisan support for Israel's security and right to self-defense."
Harris has said she wants to reexamine and potentially overhaul Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But while serving as San Francisco's district attorney, she supported a city policy that turned immigrant minors without authorization to live in the United States over to ICE if they were arrested or believed to have committed a felony. Harris supports the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects young people who come to the United States illegally as children.
Harris co-sponsored the Reunite Act to reunify separated migrant families and has introduced legislation to increase oversight at immigrant detention centers and end the construction of new facilities. She's also introduced a bill that would limit ICE's ability to take actions harmful to unaccompanied migrant children. She opposed Trump's border wall, which she's called a "medieval vanity project."
Harris introduced the 2018 Access to Counsel Act, which would guarantee detained migrants access to an attorney. She cosponsored the 2018 Marijuana Justice Act, which would end the federal prohibition of marijuana. She supports clearing nonviolent marijuana-related charges from people's records.
Harris supports a moratorium on the death penalty under federal law and has called executions "immoral, discriminatory, ineffective, and a gross misuse of taxpayer dollars." But the executive branch has no authority over the vast majority of executions, which are carried out by states. Harris introduced a bill to encourage states to reform or replace their cash-bail system. She also co-sponsored a federal anti-lynching bill that passed the Senate in 2018.
As California's attorney general, Harris prioritized the prosecution of transnational gangs and weapons, drugs, and human traffickers. She championed some progressive reforms in her home state, including instituting a program in San Francisco that offered first-time drug offenders education and work opportunities instead of jail time. She's become well-known as the voice of the anti-Trump resistance.
Views
Kamala Harris is a champion for marriage equality. When elected as San Francisco district attorney in 2004, she formed a hate crimes unit to prosecute anti-LGTBQ violence. She also declined to defend Proposition 8, which defined marriage between a man and a woman. Harris officiated the first same-sex marriage after the proposition was overturned in 2013.
Kamala Harris believes climate change is a priority. Harris expressed her concern for the planet during the June 2019 Democratic primary debate, referring to the "climate crisis" as an "existential threat to us as a species." In July 2019, Harris worked with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York to unveil legislation that represents low-income communities impacted by climate change.
Kamala Harris has stated that she is pro-choice and spoke up about the future for women and their reproductive health after the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Back in October 2019, Harris voiced her opinions on women’s access to reproductive health care during a Democratic primary debate. "This is the sixth debate we have had in this presidential cycle," Harris said. "And not nearly one word, with all of these discussions about health care, on women’s access to reproductive health care, which is under full-on attack in America today. And it’s outrageous."
Harris helped develop a program with the San Francisco Department of Public Health to help emergency rooms spot evidence of child sexual abuse. She also co-founded the Coalition to End the Exploitation of Kids.
Quotations:
"Black women and women of color have long been underrepresented in elected office and in November we have an opportunity to change that. Let's get to work."
"Seek truth, speak truth, and fight for the truth."
"I’ll fight for an America where we keep our word and where we honor our promises. Because that’s our America. That’s the America I believe in."
Membership
Kamala Harris is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
Alpha Kappa Alpha
Personality
Apart from her career, Harris is also considered to be an excellent and passionate cook. On her Instagram, one can find videos and photos of home-roasted turkey or casseroles, with a touch of Indian or Mediterranean flavor. She also participated in a cooking show on YouTube.
Interests
Cooking
Politicians
Barack Obama
Writers
Native Son by Richard Wright, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Artists
Lorraine O'Grady, Shepard Fairey
Sport & Clubs
Baseball
Athletes
Jackie Robinson
Music & Bands
Aretha Franklin, Bob Marley, Beyoncé, TLC, Kendrick Lamar, The Notorious B.I.G.
Connections
In 1994, Harris began dating Willie Brown, a powerhouse in California politics who was then the speaker of the state assembly and was 30 years older than Harris. In 1995, Brown was elected mayor of San Francisco. That December, Harris broke up with him because "she concluded there was no permanency in our relationship," Brown told in 2003. "And she was absolutely right."
Kamala Harris and attorney Douglas Emhoff married in 2014. They met on a blind date and married at the Santa Barbara courthouse, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Harris is stepmother to his adult children, Cole and Ella, who call her Momala.
Kamala Harris: The Biography
This short book tells the intensely human story of a woman who is changing the world in a way that no one else can.
Female Force: Kamala Harris
Kamala Devi Harris is only the second African-American and first Asian-American Senator from the state of California. A lawyer, prosecutor, and former attorney general, Harris has devoted herself to bettering the lives of her constituents while focusing on social issues that help minorities and women. Full of grit and determination, her no-nonsense approach and bi-racial heritage have made her a popular member of the Democratic party.
Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice
Discover the incredible story of a young daughter of immigrants who would grow up to defend the rights of people everywhere and be named the Democratic vice-presidential candidate by Joe Biden in this moving picture book biography of Senator Kamala Harris.