Kamala Devi Harris was born on 20 October 1964. was born in Oakland

California, USA. and her mother Shyamala Gopalan a Tamil Indian biologist 

whose work on the progesterone receptor gene has inspired advances

in breast cancer research and nutrition in the United States from India in

1958 and endocrinology at the University of California, Berkeley 

Gopalan received her PhD in 1964 Joe Harris's father Donald J.

Harris, Emeritus Professor of Economics at Stanford University 

Afro-Jamaican descent, arrived in the United States from British 

Jamaica in 1961 to pursue graduate studies at UC Berkeley and in

1966 received his PhD in Economics, of Afro-Jamaican descent. 

 met his fuDonald Harristure wife Shyamala 

Gopalan through the Civil Rights Movement,

Harris and her younger sister Maya lived in California

during and after their parents' education, and they stayed

briefly on Milvia Street in central Berkeley, then in a duplex on

Bancroft Way in West Berkeley, an area often referred to as "flatlands"

is said to have a significant black population, and when Harris 

began kindergarten, he was sent to Thousand Oaks Elementary School

as part of Berkeley's wider segregation program and a 

a public school in the more affluent neighborhoods of North 

Berkeley And the first 95 percent are white who have gone after 

separation plan and the effect is 40 percent black.