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Early life and education
See also: Family of Kamala Harris
Harris was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California.[4] Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, a biologist whose work on the progesterone receptor gene stimulated work in breast cancer research,[12] had arrived in the US from India in 1959 as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, and received a PhD in endocrinology in 1964.[13] Her father, Donald J. Harris, is a Stanford University professor emeritus of economics, who arrived in the US from British Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study at Berkeley, and received a PhD in economics in 1966.[14][15]
Until she was 12, Harris and her younger sister, Maya Harris, lived in Berkeley, California.[16][17] As a child, Harris lived briefly on Milvia Street in central Berkeley, and then her family moved to the upper floor of a duplex on Bancroft Way in West Berkeley, an area often called "the flatlands",[18] which had a significant Black population.[19]
When she began kindergarten, she was bused as part of Berkeley's comprehensive desegregation program to Thousand Oaks School, a public primary school in a more prosperous neighborhood in northern Berkeley[18] which previously had been 95 percent white, and after the desegregation plan went into effect became 40 percent Black.[19]
Harris grew up going to both a Black Baptist church and a Hindu temple.[20] She and her sister visited their mother's family in Madras (now Chennai)—on the southeastern coast of India—several times, the last time in 2009 when Harris returned with her mother's ashes and scattered them in the Indian Ocean waters.[21] [22] She says she was strongly influenced by her grandfather P. V. Gopalan, a retired Indian civil servant whose progressive views on democracy and women's rights greatly impressed her. She has remained in touch with her Indian aunts and uncles throughout her adult life.[23] She also visited her father's family in Jamaica.[24]
Her parents divorced when she was seven; she has said that when she and her sister visited their father in Palo Alto on weekends, neighbors' kids were not allowed to play with them because they were black.[20] When she was 12, Harris and her sister moved with their mother to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where their mother had accepted a research and teaching position at the McGill University-affiliated Jewish General Hospital.[25] Harris attended a French-speaking middle school, Notre-Dame-des-Neiges,[26] and then Westmount High School in Westmount, Quebec, graduating in 1981.[27]
After high school, Harris attended Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C. While at Howard, she interned as a mail room clerk for California senator Alan Cranston, chaired the economics society, led the debate team and joined Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.[28][29] Harris graduated from Howard in 1986 with a degree in political science and economics.
Harris then returned to California to attend law school at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law through its Legal Education Opportunity Program for students from adverse backgrounds.[30] While at UC Hastings, she served as president of its chapter of the Black Law Students Association.[31] She graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1989[32] and was admitted to the California Bar in June 1990
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Early life and education
See also: Family of Kamala Harris
Harris was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California.[4] Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, a biologist whose work on the progesterone receptor gene stimulated work in breast cancer research,[12] had arrived in the US from India in 1959 as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, and received a PhD in endocrinology in 1964.[13] Her father, Donald J. Harris, is a Stanford University professor emeritus of economics, who arrived in the US from British Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study at Berkeley, and received a PhD in economics in 1966.[14][15]
Until she was 12, Harris and her younger sister, Maya Harris, lived in Berkeley, California.[16][17] As a child, Harris lived briefly on Milvia Street in central Berkeley, and then her family moved to the upper floor of a duplex on Bancroft Way in West Berkeley, an area often called "the flatlands",[18] which had a significant Black population.[19]
When she began kindergarten, she was bused as part of Berkeley's comprehensive desegregation program to Thousand Oaks School, a public primary school in a more prosperous neighborhood in northern Berkeley[18] which previously had been 95 percent white, and after the desegregation plan went into effect became 40 percent Black.[19]
Harris grew up going to both a Black Baptist church and a Hindu temple.[20] She and her sister visited their mother's family in Madras (now Chennai)—on the southeastern coast of India—several times, the last time in 2009 when Harris returned with her mother's ashes and scattered them in the Indian Ocean waters.[21] [22] She says she was strongly influenced by her grandfather P. V. Gopalan, a retired Indian civil servant whose progressive views on democracy and women's rights greatly impressed her. She has remained in touch with her Indian aunts and uncles throughout her adult life.[23] She also visited her father's family in Jamaica.[24]
Her parents divorced when she was seven; she has said that when she and her sister visited their father in Palo Alto on weekends, neighbors' kids were not allowed to play with them because they were black.[20] When she was 12, Harris and her sister moved with their mother to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where their mother had accepted a research and teaching position at the McGill University-affiliated Jewish General Hospital.[25] Harris attended a French-speaking middle school, Notre-Dame-des-Neiges,[26] and then Westmount High School in Westmount, Quebec, graduating in 1981.[27]
After high school, Harris attended Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C. While at Howard, she interned as a mail room clerk for California senator Alan Cranston, chaired the economics society, led the debate team and joined Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.[28][29] Harris graduated from Howard in 1986 with a degree in political science and economics.
Harris then returned to California to attend law school at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law through its Legal Education Opportunity Program for students from adverse backgrounds.[30] While at UC Hastings, she served as president of its chapter of the Black Law Students Association.[31] She graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1989[32] and was admitted to the California Bar in June 1990