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  1. Ancestry of Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris is of Indian and Irish Jamaican descent on her paternal side and of Indian descent on her maternal side. [41] According to the Los Angeles Times, "Gopalan (Kamala's mother) was a Tamil Brahmin, part of a "privileged elite" in Hinduism's ancient caste hierarchy." [42]

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  3. Early life and education. See also: Family of Kamala Harris. Kamala Devi Harris was born in Oakland, California, [11] on October 20, 1964. [12] Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a Tamil Indian biologist, whose work on the progesterone receptor gene stimulated advances in breast cancer research. [13]

  4. Aug 14, 2020 · (AP) By Ciara O'Rourke August 14, 2020. If Your Time is short. In 2018, Donald J. Harris, Kamala Harris’ father, said in an essay that he is the descendant of Hamilton Brown, an Irish man who...

  5. Sep 13, 2020 · Senator Kamala Harris often tells the story of her parents’ romance. They were idealistic foreign graduate students who were swept up in the U.S. civil rights movement — a variation of the ...

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  6. Jan 20, 2021 · Harris, who served four years as a U.S. senator from California, was sworn on January 20, 2021, as the first Black woman vice president in U.S. history as well as the first of South Asian...

  7. Jan 21, 2021 · Jan 21, 2021, 7:07 AM PST. Kamala Harris with her husband and niece's daughter. Mason Trinca/Getty Images. Kamala Harris made history on Wednesday as the first female US Vice President....

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