Senator Kamala Harris running for President 2020

Senator Kamala Harris

​Senator Kamala Harris has announced she is running for president in 2020. Born in California on October 20, 1964, she is the daughter of Jamaican-born economics professor Donald Harris and Shyamala Gopalan, who is of Indian descent.  She is the first Jamaican-American to run for president.

In 2010, she made history as the first female and first African-American to serve as California’s attorney general. She ran again in 2014 and was re-elected.  From 2004 to 2011, she was the 27th district attorney of San Francisco.
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Senator Harris graduated from Howard University and received her law degree from the University of California, Hastings. She is married to Doug Emhoff. Her sister, Maya Harris, is a public policy advocate.