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When Kamala Harris accepted the nomination of vice president of the Democratic National Convention, she took a moment to introduce herself again to voters and to talk about her definition of family, which includes « the family in which you are are born and the family you choose «
A key member of Harris’s family? His younger sister Maya, 53, a close confidante and political adviser, who has even been dubbed Bobby Kennedy in Kamala’s Jack
« There is a greater level of integrity in the way [the Harris sisters] conduct themselves, » Maya friend Kate Kendall, former director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, told Talking Points Memo in april 2019 « You think of John Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy as an example of very political, intensely ambitious and thoughtful individuals »
“We’ve forged an indestructible bond,” Kamala said of her sister last year in an interview with the Washington Post. “When I think about it, all the happy times in our lives, all the hard times, all the moments of transition, we have always been together «
In 2014, Maya even celebrated her sister’s wedding to Douglas Emhoff And when it came time to introduce Kamala for her historic DNC speech, Maya spoke of their closeness
« Growing up, heaven help the poor child who took hold of me because my sister would be there in a flash to protect me, » she said « Now we support you as you and Joe fight for protect our democracy «
I wouldn’t be the same person without my brilliant and caring sister by my side. Happy National Siblings Day, Maya!
Maya received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley and then graduated from Stanford Law School
In 2014, Maya spoke about her college and law school experience as a single mother (She has a daughter named Meena) “I was a single teenage parent and I wouldn’t been able to do what I could have done if I had not had access to childcare services and if I had not had mechanisms to pay both my college tuition and my costs. law school, ”she said on MSNBC
Like her mother and aunt, Meena, 35, is a lawyer, graduated from Stanford and Harvard Law, and previously worked in the political departments of large tech companies, including Slack and Uber. She is now the Founder and CEO of the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign, an organization inspired by Maya Angelou’s poem “Phenomenal Woman” whose mission is to raise awareness for social causes, and recently wrote a book titled Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea. , which was inspired by his mother and aunt
At the DNC 2020, Meena was one of the many women to introduce Kamala Harris « You are my role model, who taught me that I can do or be whatever I wanted, » she said. Said She also spoke of her two daughters: « And now that I’m a mom you are showing my daughters and so many daughters across the world who look like them what is possible and what it is to move through. the world so fiercely, formidable and phenomenal women in their own way «
Maya served as president of her older sister’s presidential campaign, but it was not her first experience with a presidential race Previously, she served as senior policy advisor for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign
Previously, she held executive positions at the Ford Foundation and the ACLU of Northern California, and at age 29, she became one of the youngest law school deans in history. when she assumed the position at Lincoln Law School in Sacramento
« I think most people who know Maya will tell you that she is one of the smartest people they know, » Kamala recently told Politico « The fact that she volunteered to work on this campaign at such a high level and be exactly what it always has been – she works around the clock and she is probably the hardest person if not one of the hardest working people hard on the countryside – I think very blessed «
Although Maya has held the very public role of political analyst on MSNBC in the past, she is relatively private about her personal life.But in April 2020, she opened up about her experience with lupus, given that Trump was doing promoting the drug hydryroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for COVID-19 – despite Dr Anthony Fauci saying it’s not effective (Hydroxychloroquine is an essential drug for people with lupus)
« I have lupus I haven’t talked about it publicly before now But then the coronavirus struck, killing black people at alarming rates & Trump needlessly put lupus patients – black women in a way disproportionate – at a higher risk, « Harris wrote on Twitter, sharing her story In the thread, she added a video from Amiee Kushner, another lupus patient, with the following comment: « Trump unnecessarily caused a run on hydroxychloroquine, stored nearly 30 million doses of it and created a shortage of primary drugs that lupus patients like Amiee take to stabilize disease and live their lives «
I have lupus I haven’t talked about it publicly before now But then the coronavirus struck, killing black people at alarming rates & Trump needlessly put lupus patients – disproportionately black women – at a higher risk So I wrote this for @TheAtlantic https: // tco / frXTYRTi9S
West is a former Associate Attorney General in the US Senate and is currently Uber’s Legal Director
Husband of Kamala Harris
World News – CA – Maya Harris is more than Kamala Harris’ sister, she is a key political ally
