# Kamala Harris's extended family is pretty impressive

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**Created:** [January 20, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harriss-extended-family-is-pretty-impressive/931005 "2021-01-20T18:30:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harriss-extended-family-is-pretty-impressive/931005/1 "2021-01-20T18:30:23Z")

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I don’t normally look into the families of politicians, but I don’t know much about kamala Harris so I decided to look into her, including her family.

If you haven’t looked, it’s really impressive. kamala Harris’s mom is an accomplished biochemist and her dad is an accomplished economist. her grandfather was a high ranking government official, her sister has achieved a lot. it’s a family full of professors, scientists, civil rights activists, lawyers, high ranking government officials and authors.

[https://en](https://en). [Family of Kamala Harris - Wikipedia](http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Kamala_Harris)

I have no real point with this post, it’s just impressive what all her family has accomplished.

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**Author:** ![CoconutPete](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coconutpete/32/5294_2.png) [@CoconutPete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoconutPete)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harriss-extended-family-is-pretty-impressive/931005/2 "2021-01-20T19:34:34Z")

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Her mom is dead, wasn’t sure if you were of that since you used the present tense.

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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harriss-extended-family-is-pretty-impressive/931005/3 "2021-01-20T20:24:49Z")

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no I wasn’t, I missed that part. still, her mom contributed meaningful research into medicine and biochemistry at a time when many women couldn’t hope to enter fields like biomedical research at top universities.