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FROM: The Office of Multicultural Affairs and Diversity Education RE: Celebrate Black History Month- Kamala Harris- US Senator
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2/11/2019 8:31:52 AM
To: Students, Faculty, Staff

 

“If you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.”   -Kamala Harris

Lifelong civil rights and public safety defender, California Senator Kamala Harris is making history by throwing her hat into the 2020 presidential election. Born in Oakland, California in 1964 to Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a physician and renowned breast cancer researcher, and Donald Harris, an economic professor at Stanford. Harris’ political career started younger than most, when, as a child,  she organized her first protest against a building owner who wouldn’t allow the neighborhood children to play on their lawn.1 She then went on to earn an undergraduate degree from Howard University, and her law degree from the University of California, Hastings. Harris served two terms as District Attorney for San Francisco, creating a landmark program that allowed first-time drug offenders the chance to earn a high school diploma and find employment. Moved to serve the people of California in a greater capacity, she made a successful bid to become first African-American and first woman to serve as California’s Attorney General. Harris continues to serve her state and country in the senate today, fighting for fair wages, criminal justice reform, veterans, and healthcare for all U.S. citizens. While appearing on Good Morning America on January 21, 2019, Martin Luther King Day, Harris announced bid to run for president in 2020.2

1. https://www.biography.com/people/kamala-harris

2. https://www.harris.senate.gov/about