Get to know Presidential Candidate Senator Kamala Harris
• In 2016 She was the first Indiana-American and second African-American elected to the U.S. Senate.
• As attorney general of California for six years, she was the first woman, first African-American and first Indian-American in that role.
• She was district attorney of San Francisco from 2004-2010.
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• Born in Oakland, California October 20, 1964.
• Harris is a proud HBCU graduate from Howard University. Her majors where Political Science and Economics.
• She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
• She is married Attorney Douglas Emhoff in 2014.
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• Her platform proposals include the largest tax break for the middle class in American history.
• She is the author of two books, “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey” and “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer.”
• Her Presidential campaign theme is “For the People.”
• If elected President she will be the first Woman and First African-American as President of the United States.