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29 November 2020
Views of Point Molate, Point Isabel, and Winehaven: November 2020
08 November 2020
Vice-President Kamala Harris' childhood home in Berkeley.
Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, California, on 20 October 1964. She lived in Berkeley until 1976, when her family moved to Montreal, Canada. Ms. Harris returned to the United States after attending high school in Canada. She graduated from Howard University in Washington D.C. and from the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.
Attorney Harris was employed as an Alameda County prosecuting attorney before being elected San Francisco district attorney. She was then elected California attorney general. Kamala Harris was also elected as a California senator in the United States Congress.
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This is a view of a two-unit apartment building located at 1227 Bancroft Way, Berkeley. Kamala Harris, her mother, Shyamala Gopalan (1938-2009), and her sister Maya lived in the upstairs apartment.
Shyamala Gopalan came to the United States from India in 1960 to study for her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1963, she married Donald Harris, a fellow graduate student who was an immigrant from Jamaica. They separated when Kamala Harris was a young child.
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