Kamala Harris is Democratic politician from California. Before her election to the Vice Presidency of the United States in the Biden administration, she was a United States Senator, California Attorney General, a former district attorney, and a former prosecutor.

Harris started her career as a prosecutor in California. She advanced in the San Francisco district attorney’s office, partially with the assistance of her former boyfriend, then-San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown (D), the former Speaker of the California State Assembly. Harris was then elected district attorney of San Francisco and then Attorney General of California. Harris’s record as a district attorney reflected both left-progressive and right-of-center criminal justice policies. Nonetheless, during the 2020 Presidential election, Harris made efforts to portray herself as left-progressive. She has been criticized for inconsistency and political opportunism for her policy changes.

Harris was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 2017 and served half a term before running for President in 2020. After taking a brief lead in the polls, Harris’s popularity fell until she dropped out of the race in December of 2019. Harris endorsed current President-elect Joe Biden three months later, who later chose her as his running mate on the Democratic ticket. After Biden’s 2020 general election victory, Harris became Vice President-elect of the United States.

Early Life and Education

Kamala Harris was born in Oakland California in 1964. Her father, Donald Harris, was an economics professor at Stanford University from Jamaica. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a cancer researcher from India. Harris’s parents met while they were studying at the University of California, Berkeley and often brought Harris to campus protests as a child. Harris’s parents divorced when she was seven years old, and Harris lived with her mother. 0){ let parent=divs[divs.length-1].parentNode; let footer=divs[divs.length-1]; delete divs[divs.length-1]; for (let i=2; i