Search results
Aug 22, 2020 · New York: Donald Harris, the father of Indian-origin Senator and Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris, has said that close contact with his daughters "came to an abrupt...
- Donald Harris Was Upset About Kamala Harris’s Jamaican Pot Smoking Joke
- Donald Harris Is An Emeritus Professor of Economics
- Harris Was A Wisconsin Professor Who Went to College in Berkeley
- Donald Is Divorced from Kamala’s Indian-born Mother
Kamala Harris, who has already hit the 2020 presidential election trail, was asked on the radio about whether she smoked pot when she was young. She joked, “Half my family’s from Jamaica, are you kidding me?” That didn’t sit well with her father, Donald Harris, who perceived the joke as a slam at his family’s heritage. He went off on the comment in...
Kamala’s dad is an emeritus professor of economics at a prestigious university – Stanford. According to his Stanford biography, Donald Harris, at Stanford, “was a leader in developing the new program in Alternative Approaches to Economic Analysis as a field of graduate study. For many years he also taught the popular undergraduate course in Theory ...
Donald Harris joined Stanford in 1972. Before that, he was a professor at the University of Wisconsin (Madison). He was named a professor there “three years after graduating from the University of California (Berkeley),” his bio says. He’s now retired but has earned the distinguished title of emeritus professor. “He took early retirement from Stanf...
Kamala Harris’s mother, Shyamala Gopalan, “emigrated from Chennai, India, to come to the University of California-Berkeley to pursue a doctorate in nutrition and endocrinology,” reports Mother Jones. Her Jamaican-raised father met Shyamala in college. She was supposed to “return to India and an arranged marriage,” but she married Donald instead, th...
Nov 7, 2020 · Donald J. Harris, a Jamaican-born economics professor, has expressed regret that a custody battle brought his close contact with his daughters “to an abrupt halt.”
- Ellen Barry
May 2, 2024 · Kamala Harris ’ parents, Donald J. Harris and Dr. Shyamala Gopalan, came to the United States to pursue their dreams — but never envisioned a future where their daughter would one day become ...
Jan 22, 2021 · “My father is a good guy,” she told SF Weekly, “but we are not close.” Neither Donald Harris, now a retired professor emeritus, nor the White House responded to requests for comment. In one...
Jan 20, 2021 · “As a father, I naturally sought to develop the same sensibility in my two daughters.” While Harris is very vocal about her Indian and Jamaican roots, it’s not often that she speaks out about her...
Sep 13, 2020 · Not until her oldest daughter was in high school could she afford a down payment on her own home, something she desperately wanted, Senator Harris wrote in her memoir.
