She attended Thousand Oaks Primary school which was predominantly occupied by 95% white , She got her first degree in political science and Economics from Howard University in Washington DC, she got her second degree in law from the University of California, Hastings College of the law.
In 2014, she tied the knot with Mr. Doug Emhoff who works as a partner at global law firm DLA Piper, a firm that specializes in entertainment, Litigation and intellectual property, the marriage is blessed with two children Cole and Emma from Mr. Emhoff's first marriage and according to Kamala they are her biggest fan and cheer leader.
Her career in Politics alongside law started in 1990 where Harris was as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County California, in 1998, she was recruited as an assistant district attorney where she became the Chief of the Criminal career division supervising five other attorney prosecuting homicide, burglary, robbery and sexual assault cases.
In August 2000, Harris took a new job at San Francisco city hall, she ran the family and children services Division dealing with child abuse and neglect cases.
In 2002, Kamala Harris contested against Hallinan assisted by Mark Buel her friends step father, she won the election with 56%of the vote making her California's first American district attorney of colors. In 2008, she announced her intentions of becoming California's attorney general, she was nominated with 33.6% vote as a candidate, the general election took a long time but after a protracted period of counting mail in and provisional ballots in Jan 3, 2011she was sworn in as the first African -American, Asian- American and the first woman to serve as California attorney general. In 2014, she did a re-election into this office and she won with 57.5%. Currently as a Democratic nominee.
This Icon is a victim of racism, criticism; as a child other neighbor's kids refused to play with her because she was black, her divorced parents forced her to haggle between being a black christain or an Hinduist but she rose above the hurdle with these achievements namely: she reduced the rate of truancy in School as a district attorney of San Francisco by allowing the court to defer judgement on parents of truant kids. Based on the assets she declared, she is worth over 6.3 million dollars Harris as a San Francisco district attorney, convictions of drug dealers increased from 56% in 2003 to 74% in 2006. Within six months of taking office, Harris cleared 27 out out of 74 back logged homicide cases by settling 14 by plea bargain and taking 11 to trial with 9 convictions and 2 hung juries, she attained an 81% success rate.
In November 2011, she announced the creation of Mortgage Fraud Strike, this helped in the recovery of 241 million dollars from Quest diagnostics and 323 million dollars from the Scan health care network. From 2013-2015, Harris pursued financial recoveries from California's public employee and teachers pension leading to the recovery of 193 million dollars respectively.
In 2015, She introduced the first of it's kind" Principled Policing": a policy that helped law enforcement agencies to overcome barriers to neutral policing and rebuild the relationship of trust between law enforcement and the community.
In 2017, Kamala D. Harris was sworn in as a United States Senator for California, the second African-American woman and first South Asian-American senator in history. She serves on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Committee on the Budget.
In January 2019,a memoir by Kamala, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey, was published. Shortly thereafter Harris announced that she was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. Although Harris’s support initially increased, by September 2019 her campaign was in serious trouble, and in December she dropped out of the race.
As racial injustice became a major issue in the United States, many Democrats called on Biden, the party’s presumptive nominee, to select an African American woman—a demographic that was seen as pivotal to his election chances—as his vice presidential running mate. In August 2020 Biden chose Harris, and she thus became the first Black woman to appear on a major party’s national ticket.
Kamala has spent her life fighting injustice. It’s a passion that was first inspired by her mother, Shyamala, an Indian-American immigrant, activist, and breast cancer researcher who was quoted to have always told Kamala "Don’t let anyone push you around.”
Kamala Harris can be described as an uncorrupted pioneer of Justice, One of her popular quotes is "I was born to be an independent woman, not a victim of anything". I am particularly in love with this her statement-“Here's the thing: every office I've run for I was the first to win. First person of colour. First woman. First woman of colour. Every time.”
No doubt, Kamala Harris is constantly changing her world and her legacy will remain in the sands of time, truth is you can be all and anything you want to be, better to start now because the future is female.
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