Kamala Harris & Maya Harris West

Kamala Harris and Maya Harris West posing with their mother Dr Shyamala Gopalan

Kamala Devi Harris (/ˈkɑːmələ/[1]) (born October 20, 1964) is an American attorney. She is the 32nd and current Attorney General of California following the 2010 California state elections.[2][3] Harris has worked as an author and a politician and served as District Attorney of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011. First elected in 2003, defeating incumbent district attorney Terence Hallinan, she was re-elected in 2007. Harris is the first female [4] African-American [5][6][7][8][9] and Asian American attorney general in California.

Maya L. Harris (now Maya Harris West)[1] is Vice President for Democracy, Rights and Justice at the Ford Foundation. She was named to that position in June 2008. Prior to joining the Ford Foundation, she served as the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California.[2][3] Before joining the ACLU, the former law school dean (Lincoln Law School of San Jose) was a Senior Associate at PolicyLink. She has authored two publications, which include; a report highlighting community-centered policing practices nationwide and an advocacy manual for police reform.

The Harris sisters were born in Oakland, California. They are the daughters of an Indian mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan—a breast cancer specialist who emigrated from Chennai, India, to the United States in 1960[12]—and a Jamaican American father, Stanford University economics professor Donald Harris.[13] The Harris sisters grew up in a household that combined Hindu and Baptist teachings.[15] They were raised in Berkeley, Oakland, and Montreal, where their mother took a position doing research at the Jewish General Hospital and teaching at McGill University.

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