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Donald J. Harris is the father of Kamala Harris. He is a Jamaican-American economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, originally from Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica. Of Indian-Jamaican heritage, Harris was born on August 23, 1938, to Beryl Christie Harris (née Finegan) and Oscar Joseph Harris.
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Jan 20, 2021 · There is no doubt that Harris's parents, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan and Donald Harris, helped her become the person she is today—and the inspiration she'll be to many in office. Here’s...
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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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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...
Nov 7, 2020 · Vice President Kamala Harris was born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California to two immigrant parents: mom Shyamala Gopalan, and dad Donald Harris. A prominent cancer researcher before passing away in 2009, Gopalan was born in India and came to the United States to get her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Jan 20, 2021 · Get to know new vice president Kamala Harris' parents Shyamala Gopalan and Donald J. Harris, where they immigrated from, how her mom died, and what Kamala's relationship is like with her...
Kamala Harris's Jamaican American father, Donald J. Harris, is of Afro-Jamaican and Irish-Jamaican ancestry. [17] He is a Stanford University professor of economics (emeritus) who arrived in the United States from British Jamaica in 1961, for graduate study at UC Berkeley, receiving a PhD in economics in 1966.