Kamala Harris

Kamala Devi Harris was born in 1964 and is the first female, black vice president. She has been a California Attorney General as well as District Attorneys of San Francisco City Hall from 2004 to 2011.

Kamala Harris is a former Attorney General of California who has been the first female black senator since 2017. She was born in Oakland, California to an Indian American mother and Jamaican American father. She attended Howard University and received her law degree from Hastings College of the Law. In 1990, she became the second woman to be elected as San Francisco’s District Attorney. She was elected Attorney General of California in 2011 where she served until 2017. During her time as a public servant, she focused on a variety of issues such as legalizing same-sex marriage, fighting human trafficking, protecting undocumented immigrants, and criminal justice reform.

Harris says she was inspired to become a public servant after reading about "the civil rights movement, the space program, and the Watergate investigation." She attended Howard University before transferring to UC Hastings College of the Law, where she became the first black president of the school's law student association. Her background is legal - she worked as a prosecutor in Alameda County and San Francisco before being elected district attorney in 2003. She went on to be elected San Francisco's district attorney in 2011, becoming the first woman of color to hold that position there.

In 2016, she ran for the U.S. Senate seat held by Barbara Boxer. The race was one of the most expensive Senate races ever. Harris won with 52% of the vote.

In 2017, she released a book entitled "The Truths We Hold: An American Journey." In it, she writes about how her upbringing informed her political views.

Kamala Harris believes that climate change is a major threat to our planet’s ecosystems and has called for immediate action to combat it. She supports the Green New Deal which would make every building energy-efficient within 10 years and cut pollution in half by 2030 while creating millions of high-wage jobs that cannot be outsourced. This plan would also support communities with economic security so that everyone can benefit from a clean economy. The plan will also create millions of jobs in renewable energy generation such as wind power, solar power, geothermal power, tidal power, wave power, hydroelectric power, biomass energy generation (such as ethanol), and other emerging technologies. The Green New deal will also work towards zero-emissions vehicles and manufacturing by banning oil drilling and fracking on public lands and offshore areas along with banning new fossil fuel leases on federal land while ending subsidies for fossil fuel companies. The plan will also invest $2 trillion over 10 years into upgrading our country’s infrastructure to make it more sustainable such as building high-speed rail lines between major cities while expanding existing transit systems across the country.

Kamala Harris has been a strong voice for the people. She's never hesitated to speak her mind and take on tough issues that matter most, like criminal justice reform, healthcare, gun control, climate change and immigration.