A Guide to Vice President Kamala Harris’ Family

Instagram; Kamala Harris run / Avalon

Shyamala Gopalan was calved successful confederate India successful 1938 and Donald J. Harris was calved successful Jamaica that aforesaid year.

According to The New York Times, they met successful 1962 portion earning their Ph.D.s astatine the University of California, Berkeley and arsenic members of the survey radical the Afro American Association. They wed the pursuing twelvemonth and welcomed daughters Kamala Harris successful 1964 and Maya Harris successful 1967.

“They fell successful emotion successful that astir American way,” Harris said successful her 2020 Democratic National Convention speech, “while marching unneurotic for justness successful the civilian rights question of the 1960s.”

However, her parents aboriginal split.

"I knew they loved each different precise much, but it seemed they’d go similar lipid and water," Harris wrote successful her publication The Truths We Hold. "By the clip I was 5 years old, the enslaved betwixt them had fixed mode nether the value of incompatibility."

While Harris wrote her begetter “remained a portion of our lives" aft the divorce, she noted “it was truly my parent who took complaint of our upbringing.”

After moving arsenic a prof astatine the University of Wisconsin, Donald joined Stanford and is simply a prof of economics, emeritus, per his school bio.

Shyamala, who died successful 2009 astatine property 70, was a bosom crab researcher. Breast Cancer Action noted her "work successful isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor cistron transformed the aesculapian establishment’s knowing of the hormone-responsiveness of bosom tissue."

Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

Born successful Brooklyn successful 1964 and raised successful Matawan, New Jersey, Doug Emhoff moved to Los Angeles with his household arsenic a teen. He received his B.A. successful communications from California State University, Northridge successful 1987 and graduated with a J.D. from University of Southern California Gould School of Law 3 years later.

As Emhoff antecedently told CBS Sunday Morning, helium met Harris successful 2013 aft they were acceptable up connected a unsighted day by a communal friend. The amusement litigator had texted the erstwhile California Attorney General astatine a Lakers crippled aft immoderate encouragement from his pal.

"We sat determination successful the stands and came up with this substance that’s like, 'Hey, it’s Doug. Awkward. I’m texting you,'" helium recalled to the outlet. "She said thing like, 'Yay Lakers! Go Lakers!' Biggest Warriors instrumentality retired there."

While Emhoff feared he'd ne'er perceive from Harris again aft helium near a self-described "ridiculous" voicemail, she told CBS she thought the connection was "just adorable" (though, she admitted she Googled him earlier their date).

They exchanged vows successful a Santa Barbara, Calif. courthouse 3 years earlier Harris was elected to the U.S. Senate successful 2017.

In summation to being the nation's first-ever 2nd gentleman, Emhoff is the archetypal Jewish spouse of an American president oregon vice president. He besides taught instrumentality courses astatine Georgetown University and is dada to kids Cole and Ella Emhoff, whom helium shares with ex-wife Kerstin Emhoff.

Instagram

Cole Emhoff, calved successful 1994, volition ne'er hide erstwhile helium was archetypal introduced to Harris.

“I met her and we had this astonishing dinner,” Emhoff's eldest, who was a elder successful precocious schoolhouse astatine the clip of their meeting, recalled to Glamour successful 2020. “And I realized like, Oh, my God, Doug has met idiosyncratic who is wholly unsocial and wholly special. I deliberation for each of us, it was emotion astatine archetypal sight.”

Cole graduated from Colorado College successful 2017. According to People, citing his now-private LinkedIn profile, helium has worked for Brad Pitt’s accumulation institution Plan B and is joined to Greenley Littlejohn, with Harris officiating their wedding successful 2023.

Instagram

Ella Emhoff, calved successful 1999 and named aft Ella Fitzgerald, has akin memories of her archetypal gathering with Harris.

“It felt similar we had known each different forever,” the artist, who was conscionable entering precocious schoolhouse astatine the time, added to Glamour. “And I deliberation what was important was getting to cognize her arsenic a idiosyncratic first—a idiosyncratic earlier a politician.”

Years aft that introduction, Ella introduced Harris astatine the 2020 Democratic National Convention, wherever she accepted the vice-presidential nomination.

According to her LinkedIn profile, Ella—who antecedently confirmed a narration with GQ exertion Samuel Hine—graduated from New York's Parson’s School of Design successful 2021 with a grade successful Fine and Studio Arts. She interned astatine A.L.C. and worked arsenic a fabricator astatine The Haas Brothers.

In summation to being a multidisciplinary artist—founding her institution Soft Hands—she’s a model with IMG Models who has appeared successful some Paris and New York Fashion Week.

Emma McIntyre/Getty Images

Among those closest to Harris is her younger sister, Maya Harris.

"We leaned connected each other,” the 49th Vice President told The Washington Post in 2019. “We forged a enslaved that is unbreakable. When I deliberation astir it, each of the joyous moments successful our lives, each of the challenging moments, each of the moments of transition, we person ever been together."

As her bio notes, Maya served arsenic a run chairperson during Harris' 2020 statesmanlike tally and aboriginal championed her tally for VP alongside President Joe Biden. Previously, she worked arsenic a elder argumentation advisor to erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her 2016 statesmanlike campaign.

Born successful 1967, Maya graduated from University of California, Berkeley and past received her instrumentality grade from Stanford Law School. Her résumé includes enactment positions astatine the Ford Foundation and ACLU of Northern California, a elder chap relation astatine the Center for American Progress, a visiting student apppointment astatine Harvard Law School and writer publication to The Covenant with Black America.

Maya is joined to Tony West, erstwhile Associate Attorney General and existent Chief Legal Officer astatine Uber, and is ma to girl Meena Harris.

Instagram

Born successful 1984, Meena Harris is Harris' niece.

She attended Stanford University for undergrad and past studied astatine Harvard Law School. In summation to moving arsenic an attorney, she’s held positions astatine Facebook, Slack and Uber.

Later, Meena founded Phenomenal, a user and media institution that’s produced musicals similar Suffs, & Juliet and A Strange Loop and acquired satirical women’s mag Reductress. She is besides a best-selling children's publication writer of titles including Kamala and Maya's Big Idea, Ambitious Girl and The Truth About Mrs. Claus.

In addition, Meena is ma to daughters Amara and Leela, whom she shares with Nik Ajagu.