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  1. Donald Jasper Harris, OM (born August 23, 1938) is a Jamaican-American economist and emeritus professor at Stanford University, known for applying post-Keynesian ideas to development economics. [1]

    • He Was Born in Jamaica.
    • He Was A Prominent Professor at Stanford.
    • He and Kamala's Mother Divorced in The '70s.
    • He Was Critical of One of Kamala's Jokes During Her 2020 Presidential Campaign.
    • Kamala Speaks Most Often About Her Mom and Sister.

    According to his Stanford bio, Donald is a naturalized U.S. citizen (which unfortunately sparked bogus, and racist,claims that Kamala isn't eligible to run for office). Donald attended the University of California Berkeley and worked at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) before moving to California. During his time at Stanford, Donald acted as a...

    According to his bio, Donald joined the faculty at Stanford in 1972. His focus has been "exploring the analytical conception of the process of capital accumulation and its implications for a theory of growth of the economy, with the aim of providing thereby an explanation of the intrinsic character of growth as a process of uneven development." Acc...

    Donald immigrated to the U.S. to attend Berkeley, where he met Kamala's mother, Shyamala Gopalan. The pair crossed paths when Gopalan met Donald at one of his off-campus meetings in 1962 that discussed the parallels between Jamaica and the U.S. After the meeting was over, Gopalan introduced herself. Donald recalled her to The New York Timesas "a st...

    At one point while Kamala was touring the country as part of her 2020 presidential campaign, the then-senator was askedwhether she smoked pot when she was young. "Half my family’s from Jamaica, are you kidding me?" she replied, a tongue-in-cheek response to an arguably outdated question, as nearly half the country has legalized marijuana for recrea...

    Though her father is featured in some social media pictures shared by the vice president, Kamala doesn't speak frequently about Donald. Instead, she more often refers to her husband, Doug; her stepchildren, Cole and Ella; her mother Shyamala; and her sister, Maya Harris. According to a 2019 Washington Postarticle, friends of the family have noted t...

  2. Aug 23, 2024 · The 2024 Democratic presidential nominee was born to her father, Donald J. Harris, and her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, on Oct. 20, 1964, in Oakland, Calif. Kamala's younger sister, Maya,...

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  3. Sep 11, 2024 · Donald J. Harris, Kamala Harris' father, is a post-Keynesian economist who has written on Marxist theory. He is a retired Stanford University professor who has served as an economic...

  4. 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.”

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  6. Sep 10, 2024 · While Harris is very vocal about her Indian and Jamaican roots, it’s not often that she speaks out about her father. Below, here's what to know about Donald J. Harris.

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