- The US Vice-Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party for the year 2020 election.
- Regarding the ethnic origin, she is half Jamaican and half East-Indian was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California. Her father Donald Harris was from Jamaica and her mother Shyamala Gopalan was from Chennai, India.
- She is the first African-American, the first Indian-American, the first Asian-American, and the third female vice presidential running mate on a major party ticket after Geraldine Ferraro and Sarah Palin.
- Harris is currently serving as the United States Senator from California. Prior to that served as 32nd Attorney General of California (January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2017).
- She married attorney Douglas Emhoff, who was at one time partner-in-charge at Venable LLP’s Los Angeles office.
- Harris is a member of Third Baptist Church of San Francisco, a congregation of the American Baptist Churches USA.
- Her sister, Maya Harris, was an MSNBC political analyst; her brother-in-law, Tony West, is the general counsel of Uber and a former United States Department of Justice senior official. Her niece, Meena Harris, is the founder of the Phenomenal Women Action Campaign.
- Harris’s mother understood that her adopted homeland would see her daughters as black girls, and Harris was brought up as a determined, confident, proud black woman.
- Indian and Indian-American publications proudly use her Indian first name, which means “lotus flower,” along with her middle name, Devi, the Sanskrit word for “goddess,” which Harris generally doesn’t use.
- She loves cheeseburger, which is a hamburger topped with cheese consisting of one or more cooked patties of beef.
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