Early Life and Education
Harris was born in Oakland, California. She is the daughter of an Asian Indian mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan—a breast cancer specialist who emigrated from Madras (now called Chennai), India, to the United States in 1960—and a Jamaican American father, Stanford University economics professor Donald Harris. She has one younger sister, Maya Harris. The Harris sisters grew up in a household that combined Hindu and Baptist teachings.
Harris attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she was initiated into Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, and received her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1989. She was admitted to the California Bar in 1990.
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