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[4] [43] [44] Harris dedicated his 1978 book to his daughters. [4] He has led a largely private life amid his children's rise to prominence, declining nearly all interview requests. [45] [46] Over the years, Kamala Harris has described her relationship with her father as cordial but distant, owing to her being primarily raised by her mother. [47]
Donald J. Harris is the father of Kamala Harris. He is a Jamaican-American economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, originally from Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica. Of Jamaican descent, Harris was born on August 23, 1938, to Beryl Christie Harris (née Finegan) [20] [21] and Oscar Joseph Harris. [22]
Kamala Harris's dad, an economist and Stanford University professor, immigrated to the U.S. from Jamaica for his Ph.D. ... “At the University of California Berkeley [my mother] met my father ...
Kamala's father, Donald J. Harris (1938–), [6] is an Afro-Jamaican who immigrated to the United States in 1961 and also enrolled in UC Berkeley, specializing in development economics. The first Black scholar to be granted tenure at Stanford University's economics department, he has emeritus status there. [7]
Was Kamala Harris’ father at the DNC? Donald is Harris’ only living parent. Shyamala died of colon cancer in 2009. But he was absent from the Democratic convention this week, as he has largely ...
"He was a brilliant student," Kamala writes in her memoir, The Truths We Hold, of her father.He studied at the University College of the West Indies, before earning his Bachelor of Arts degree ...
Kamala Harris's father, Donald J. Harris, [10] arrived in the United States from Jamaica in 1961, for graduate study at UC Berkeley, and received a Ph.D. in economics in 1966. [11] Donald Harris and Shyamala Gopalan met in 1962 and were married in 1963. [12] [13] He would become a Stanford University professor of economics in 1972. [14] [15]
The vice president's father has been largely absent from her political life.