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Meet Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's pick for vice president
Meet Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's pick for vice president
Debanjali BoseAug 12, 2020, 04:22 IST
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Former Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee for President Joe Biden has picked Kamala Harris to join him on his ticket as his VP.
Harris, a senator from California, was one of the many Democrats who had initially tossed their hats in the ring for president before bowing out in December 2019.
She served as the district attorney of San Francisco and the attorney general of California before joining the Senate.
She will be the first Black woman and first South Asian American woman on a Democratic ticket.
Take a look inside the life and career of Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's choice for VP.
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Kamala Harris was born in 1964 in Oakland, California, to graduates of the University of California, Berkeley. She has one younger sister, Maya.
Sen. Kamala Harris.
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As a young child, Harris took a bus that transported her to a neighborhood different from hers as part of Berkeley School District's desegregation efforts following the Civil Rights Era.
Youngsters head for a school bus in Berkeley on Feb. 24, 1970, where a busing program to mix black and white youngsters had been working for 18 months.
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Harris attended Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of Law.
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Harris worked at the Alameda County District Attorney's Office in Oakland for eight years, until 1998.
FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of Downtown Oakland is seen in Oakland, California.
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Harris served as District Attorney of San Francisco from 2004 to 2010.
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris waves to the crowd during the annual Gay Pride Parade along Market Street on Sunday, June 28, 2009, in San Francisco, California.
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In 2011, Harris became the Attorney General of California.
Attorney General Kamala Harris addresses the audience during the memorial service for San Jose police officer Michael Johnson at SAP Center in San Jose, California on Thursday, April 2, 2015.
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Harris has been a US senator since 2017 — the second Black woman and first South Asian woman to hold that office.
Sen. Kamala Harris reacts during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 7, 2017, in Washington DC.
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Harris launched a bid for the Democratic nomination for president last year, and dropped out in December.
Sen. Kamala Harris launches her campaign for President of the United States at a rally at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in her hometown of Oakland, California, January 27, 2019.
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Harris lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Doug Emhoff.
Douglas Emhoff and Kamala Harris attend the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 22, 2015, in Beverly Hills, California.
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