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Jan 20, 2021 · Shyamala Gopalan Harris immigrated to the United States from India. Born in Madras (now Chennai), India, Gopalan was just 19 years old when she left India alone. Having graduated from Delhi ...
Sep 13, 2020 · Shyamala Gopalan fell into important friendships at Berkeley right away. As she stood in line to register for classes, in the fall of 1959, the person standing behind her was Cedric Robinson , a ...
Jan 26, 2021 · Shyamala Gopalan was a pioneering woman of colour in America, a scientist and an activist. She was also Vice-President Kamala Harris's mother and her "greatest influence". Geeta Pandey in Delhi ...
Oct 25, 2020 · Gopalan was the only non-Black member. It was through her civil-rights activism that she got to know Donald Harris, a fellow Berkeley grad student from Jamaica. Harris was giving a talk at an ...
Nov 19, 2020 · Gopalan is often invoked in Harris's speeches. Maya Harris, Kamala's younger sister, once tweeted, “You can’t know who Kamala Harris is without knowing who our mother was.”. In fact, Harris ...
Nov 11, 2020 · Kamala Harris has spoken about her mom, Shyamala Gopalan, a Tamil Indian-American who became a leading cancer researcher and activist and passed away in 2009.
Shyamala Gopalan was a biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, whose work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene stimulated advances in breast biology and oncology. She was the mother of Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris and Maya Harris, a lawyer and political commentator.
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