Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, California on October 20, 1964. She grew up in Berkeley and attended Howard University.
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Kamala Harris's first name, which is pronounced as "comma-la," means "Lotus" in Sanskrit. The prefix "Kamala" means "beauty."
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Kamala Harris earned a bachelor's degree from Howard University in 1986. She studied political science and economics.
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Kamala Devi Harris, has worked as a lawyer and public defender in San Francisco since 1990. In 2013, Kamala Devi Harris was elected as the district attorney of San Francisco.
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Kamala Harris married attorney Douglas Emhoff in 2014. She was currently serving as the junior United States Senator from California and was elected to office in 2016.
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In 2017, Senator Kamala Harris was the first Indian-American to serve as a U.S. senator and the second African American woman.
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With her degrees from Howard University, Kamala will be the first vice resident to have graduated from a historically Black university. No president has graduated from HBCU.
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Harris became the first female and the first African American to be elected attorney general of California in 2010.
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Harris has written three books: The Truths We Hold: An American Journey; Smart on Crime; and the children’s book Superheroes Are Everywhere.
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Kamala Harris always said that “You may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last”.