- Is of Indian & Jamaican descent.
- Elected vice president in November 2020 with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, defeating the Republican ticket of President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. Harris became the first woman vice president in American history, the first Black and Asian vice president, and the highest-ranking woman in the presidential line of succession, surpassing third-ranked House speaker Nancy Pelosi.
- Younger sister Maya Harris is an attorney & political commentator for MSNBC.
- District attorney of San Francisco, 2004-2011.
- Announced her candidacy for the 2020 U.S. presidential election on January 21, 2019, but dropped out of the race in December 2019, citing poor fundraising.
- Daughter of Shyamala (Gopalan), a cancer researcher, breast cancer specialist, and civil rights activist, and Donald J. Harris, a Stanford University economics professor. Her father is Jamaican and her mother was a Tamil Indian, from Chennai.
- She has no children of her own, and she is the first vice president not to have any children since William Wheeler (served 1877-1881, under Rutherford Hayes).
- One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. (2013).
- U.S. senator from California (January 3, 2017-January 2021).
- First name is pronounced "comma-la". It is often mispronounced due to its spelling.
- Attorney general of California (2011-2016).
- Has 2 stepchildren: stepson, Cole Emhoff (b. September 15, 1994) & stepdaughter, Ella Emhoff (b. May 29, 1999) with husband, Douglas Emhoff.
- On August 11, 2020, Joe Biden announced Harris as his vice presidential running mate for the 2020 presidential election. Harris became the first non-Caucasian woman to appear on a major party presidential ticket, as well as the first person from the western U.S. to appear on the Democratic Party ticket. (Barack Obama was born in Hawaii but was elected president as a U.S. senator from Illinois.).
- In November 2021, she briefly became the first woman with presidential power when President Joe Biden transferred power to her for approximately 90 minutes while undergoing a colonoscopy.
- Counts musician Bob Marley among her favorite artists.
- Became first female vice-president in 2021.
- After Charles Curtis, the second person with documented non-white ancestry to be elected vice president of the United States, after Charles Curtis (1929-1933).
- Aunt of Meena Harris.
- Selected "Work That" by Mary J. Blige as her campaign song for her 2020 presidential campaign. She also frequently used it as her walkout song after being selected as the Democratic vice presidential nominee, including her November 7 victory speech after being elected vice president.
- Graduated from Howard University in Washington DC.
- Pledged Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Howard University.
- Is the second vice president to have been born in California, after Richard Nixon.
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