Kamala Harris made history by assuming the position of Vice President of the United States as the first woman and first African descent.
The former Senator from California, aged 56, also the first person of South Asian descent elected to the Vice Presidency.
Harris was a rising star in the Democratic Party for two decades. She was a San Francisco prosecutor and California attorney general before becoming a federal senator.
When he ended his presidential campaign in the 2020 Democratic primary, Joe Biden asked her to be his running mate. They will be sworn in as President and Vice President on 20 January.
Harris frequently ran as part of a legacy of black pioneers, including teacher Mary McLeod Bethune, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer and legislator Shirley Chisholm, the first black candidate to seek the presidential candidacy for one of the parties main, in 1972.
Harris was born in 1964, daughter of two activists in the civil rights movement. Shyamala Gopalan from India and Jamaican Donald Harris met at the University of California, Berkeley campus, a hub of activism from the 1960.
They divorced when Harris and his sister were little, and Harris was raised by his mother, later deceased, whom he considers the most important influence in his life.
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