In 1972, he joined the faculty of Stanford University as a professor of economics. He moved to the University of Wisconsin–Madison as an associate professor in 1968. Harris was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1966 to 1967 and at Northwestern University from 1967 to 1968. He met his future wife, Shyamala Gopalan through the civil rights movement. In 1963 he came to the United States to earn a PhD from University of California, Berkeley which he completed in 1966. Harris received a Bachelor of Arts from the University College of the West Indies in 1960. He grew up in the Orange Hill area of Saint Ann Parish, near Brown's Town. Of Afro-Jamaican heritage, Harris was born on August 23, 1938, to Beryl Christie Harris ( née Finegan) and Oscar Joseph Harris. He is a Jamaican-American economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, originally from Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica. Shyamala worked in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for her last decade of research. She mentored dozens of students in her lab. She also served on the President's Special Commission on Breast Cancer. She served as a peer reviewer for the National Institutes of Health and as a site visit team member for the Federal Advisory Committee. She worked for 16 years at Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research and McGill University Faculty of Medicine. She worked as a breast cancer researcher at University of Illinois and University of Wisconsin. She conducted research in UC Berkeley's Department of Zoology and Cancer Research Lab. Shyamala's work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene stimulated advances in breast biology and cancer. Īfter the October 1964 birth of Kamala and January 1967 birth of Maya, Shyamala became a permanent resident of the United States in April 1968. Her family in India, not having phone lines, communicated with her by writing aerogrammes she eventually earned a PhD in nutrition and endocrinology at UC Berkeley in 1964. In 1958, aged 19, Shyamala unexpectedly applied for a masters program at the University of California, Berkeley her parents used some of their retirement savings to pay for her tuition and board during the first year. She studied Home Science at Lady Irwin College in New Delhi, a leading college in India. A gifted singer of South Indian classical music, she won a national competition in it as a teenager. Gopalan was from Thulasenthirapuram and Rajam was from Painganadu – agrarian villages located very close to each other, near Mannargudi, in the erstwhile Tanjore District. Gopalan's family belongs to the Brahmin caste. Shyamala was born on April 7, 1938, to P. She was an Indian biologist and civil rights activist from Chennai, India. Shyamala Gopalan was the mother of Kamala Harris. He married Harris on August 22, 2014, in Santa Barbara, California, with Harris's sister Maya Harris officiating. Emhoff was married for 16 years to film producer Kerstin Emhoff née Mackin. Emhoff is now employed by DLA Piper, working at its Washington, D.C., and California offices. The firm was acquired by Venable in 2006. He opened his own firm with Ben Whitwell in 2000. He later moved to Belin Rawlings & Badal, a boutique firm, in the late 1990s. Emhoff is an entertainment litigator and began his career at Pillsbury Winthrop's litigation group. Emhoff graduated from the California State University, Northridge and USC Gould School of Law. He lived in New Jersey from 1969 to 1981, moving with his family to California when he was 17. He was born to Jewish parents, Michael and Barbara Emhoff, in Brooklyn, New York. Second Gentleman of the United States Douglas Emhoff in 2021ĭouglas Emhoff is the husband of Kamala Harris.
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