Kamala Devi Harris was born to an Indian mother and a Jamaican father in Oakland, California on October 20, 1964. She is, in part, a descendant of a Jamaican slave owner.
Kamala earned a B.A. from Howard University in 1986 and a JD from the UC Hastings College of Law in 1989. She subsequently served as: Deputy District Attorney for Alameda County from 1990-98; managing attorney of the Career Criminal Unit of the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office from 1998-2000; head of the San Francisco City Attorney’s Division on Families and Children from 2000-03; San Francisco’s District Attorney from 2004-11; and Attorney General of California from 2011-16.
Kamala's DTN Profile describes her full political career including such highlights as:
- Opposing the Death Penalty for a Gang Member Who Murdered a Police Officer
- Refusing to Sue a Professor Who Used His Publicly Funded University Website to Promote the Anti-Semitic BDS Movement
- Demanding That Conservative Groups Provide California’s State Government with Lists of Their Donors
- Close Ties to Planned Parenthood
- Comparing Modern-Day Muslim Refugees to Jews Who Fled the Third Reich, & Condemning President Trump’s “Muslim Ban”
- Advocating Identity Politics
- Likening ICE to the Ku Klux Klan
Read Kamala's FULL PROFILE on DiscoverTheNetworks.org
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