Things you didn’t know about the VP

Kamala’s father, Donald J. Harris, is an economics professor at Stanford University. Kamala’s parents divorced when she was seven, and her mother raised her and younger sister Maya on the top floor of a yellow duplex in Berkeley, California.

As a child, she attended both a Black Baptist church and a Hindu temple.

After high school, Kamala attended Howard University in Washington, DC, and then the University of California, Hastings College of Law. She was admitted to the California Bar in June 1990.

She then worked as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County, California. From there it was to the San Francisco District Attorney’s office, and in 2000 she took a new job at San Francisco City Hall, heading the Family and Children’s Services department.

Harris ran for and won an election for San Francisco district attorney in 2002 and a second term in 2007.

In 2011, she became California’s attorney general and was re-elected in 2014. She championed environmental protection and won settlements from major fuel service companies like Chevron and BP to resolve allegations that they failed to properly monitor hazardous materials in their underground storage tanks. hundreds of gas stations in California.

Kamala is an ‘enthusiastic’ and good cook who whips up recipes, and her favorite dinner is fried chicken. She wakes up around six in the morning and trains for half an hour, then drinks a bowl of raisin bran with almond milk and tea with honey and lemon before going to work.

In 2016, she won a seat as California’s junior senator in Washington, DC