Maya Harris
American attorney and advocate (born 1967)
Maya Lakshmi Harris (born January 30, 1967) is an American lawyer, public policy advocate, and writer. Harris was one of three senior policy advisors for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign's policy agenda and she also served as chair of the 2020 presidential campaign of her sister, Kamala Harris.
Harris was born in Champaign–Urbana, Illinois, and was educated at Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland, California, the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University. She was involved with PolicyLink, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Center for American Progress.
Early life and education
Maya Lakshmi Harris was born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and Montreal, Quebec. She is the younger child of Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a Tamil breast cancer researcher who emigrated from Madras (now known as Chennai), India, in 1958; and Donald Harris, a Jamaican-born Stanford University economics professor, now emeritus. Her maternal grandfather, P. V. Gopalan, was a career civil servant with Government of India. She and her older sister, Kamala, were raised with beliefs from Baptist and Hindu faiths. At 17, while attending Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland, she gave birth as a single parent to her only child, Meena Harris.
Harris earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989.
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