In one small town, critics and supporters alike ask who is Kamala Harris?

Kamala Harris is a prominent figure in American politics. She was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California. A lawyer and politician by profession, Harris has impressive records in her home state of California where she served as the 32nd Attorney General from 2011 to 2017. Between 2004 and 2010, she was the District Attorney of San Francisco. In 2017, Harris made her way to the national stage when she took office as a U.S. Senator from California. She is known for her incisive questioning style during Senate hearings. In 2020, Kamala Harris made history becoming the first female vice president and highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African American and first Asian American vice president after the ticket she joined with Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, is a breast cancer scientist who immigrated to the US from Madras (now Chennai) in India in 1960, while her father, Donald J. Harris, is a Stanford University professor emeritus of economics, who emigrated from British Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study in economics at University of California, Berkeley. With her substantial background in law and policy making, Kamala Harris is seen as a significant influence on the current American political landscape.