Maya Lakshmi Harris, an American lawyer, public policy advocate, and writer, recently delivered a captivating speech for her sister, Vice President Kamala Harris, at the DNC on August 22, Thursday in Chicago.
The 57-years-old, Maya started the speech by talking about her mother, Shayamala Gopalan, and how she taught her daughters to be strong and independent.
Maya continued her speech, stating, “Kamala knows what it’s like to be underestimated. She knows what it’s like to be the underdog and yet still beat the odds.“
Furthermore, with her powerful speech and splendid appearance in a pink suit, Maya Harris garnered the attention of millions of people who were curious to know more about her, including her height.
Talking about her height, considering her pictures and physique, Maya Harris might be around 5 feet 2 inches (157.48 cm) tall. However, the actual details of her height are not publicly available.
Likewise, Maya Harris is not only well-known as the sister of Vice President Kamala Harris; she is also a famous lawyer, advocate, philanthropist, writer, and democratic policy advisor.
Kamala Harris’ sister, Maya Harris, started her career journey as a law clerk!
After receiving her juris doctor degree from Stanford Law School in 1992, Maya Harris served as a law clerk in the Northern District of California for United States District Court Judge James Ware.
For over five years, she worked as a civil and criminal litigation lawyer for Jackson Tufts Cole & Black, LLP, in San Francisco. The firm later dissolved in 1999.
Likewise, Maya taught as an adjunct at the University of San Francisco School of Law, taught gender discrimination at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and was dean of the unaccredited Lincoln Law School of San Jose.
Maya is also popular for her advocacy. She was a senior associate at Policy Link, a national research and action institute, where she organized conferences on police-community relations.
She was vice president for Democracy rights and justice at the Ford Foundation from 2008 to 2013. Before that, she became the first Jamaican American and South Asian executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.
Moreover, she served as Senior Policy Advisor to Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential campaign and worked as Campaign Chairperson for her sister Kamala Harris during her 2020 presidential primary campaign.
Additional Information
- Maya Harris is the author of the essay “Fostering Accountable Community-Centered Policing,” which appeared in the 2006 book The Covenant with Black America. She also contributed her writing skills to The Shriver Report: A Woma’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink.
- She has a bachelor of arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a political and legal analyst for MSNBC from 2017 until 2018.
- Maya has been married to Tony West, an American attorney and former governmental officer, since July 1998.
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