Kamala Harris graduated from Howard University with a law degree from the University of California
Washington:
“Don’t just sit around and complain about things, do something.” This was the mantra given to Kamala Harris by her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, who was born in Chennai and immigrated to the United States to pursue a doctoral program at UC Berkeley.
And today, the 55-year-old Indian-born Californian senator, who on Tuesday became vice president of Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden, said her mother’s advice motivates her every day.
His father, Donald Harris, a retired Stanford University professor, immigrated to the United States from Jamaica to study economics.
Her mother told her as she grew up, “Don’t sit around and complain about things, do something,” which motivates Ms. Harris every day, according to the Biden-Harris Joint Campaign website.
“The first black and Native American woman to represent California in the United States Senate, Kamala Harris grew up believing in America’s promise and fighting to keep that promise for all Americans,” he says.
She graduated from Howard University and received a law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law.
Kamala Harris has been married to her husband Douglas Emhoff, a lawyer, for six years. She is the mother-in-law of two children, Ella and Cole, who are her “endless source of pure love and joy,” the website says.
