Harris was born in
Oakland, California,
[10] on October 20, 1964.
[11] Her mother,
Shyamala Gopalan, a biologist whose work on the
progesterone receptor gene stimulated advances in
breast cancer research,
[12] had arrived in the U.S. from
Tamil Nadu in
India in 1958 as a 19-year-old graduate student in nutrition and
endocrinology at the
University of California, Berkeley;
[13][14] Gopalan received her PhD in 1964.
[15] Harris' father,
Donald J. Harris, is a
Stanford University professor emeritus of economics, who arrived in the U.S. from
British Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study at UC Berkeley, receiving a PhD in economics in 1966.
[16][17] Along with her younger sister,
Maya, Harris lived in
Berkeley, California,
[18][19] briefly on Milvia Street in central Berkeley, then a
duplex on Bancroft Way in
West Berkeley, an area often called "the flatlands"
[20] with a significant
black population.
[21]
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