Kamala Harris is a Democratic senator from California born to a Jamaican-American father and an Indian mother. The 52-year-old Oakland native assumed office in 2017 and previously served as California's attorney general from 2011 up until the 2016 election. She was the first black person and the first woman to become attorney general in the state's history. Before that, she served as district attorney of San Francisco for six years.
Harris made history on election night in various ways. She is the first black woman to represent California in the Senate and the second black woman to ever serve in the Senate. It has been reported that she may run in the next presidential election in 2020. In the meantime, she has taken a strong stance against President Donald Trump and has pushed back on many issues, like repealing the Affordable Care Act, for example.
