If elected, Harris would be "the first female, the first African-American, the first Asian-American attorney general in California and the first South Asian-American attorney general in the nation," according to her campaign literature.
Harris was born in Oakland and grew up in the liberal bastion of Berkeley during its 1960s-'70s heyday. Her parents attended graduate school there, and they took Harris to many civil rights protests, instilling in her a sense of social justice. Her first name means "lotus flower" in Sanskrit.
Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, immigrated from Chennai, India. Her father, Donald Harris, became a Stanford University economics professor.
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