{"id":56022,"date":"2018-03-25T02:31:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T02:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56022"},"modified":"2018-03-25T02:31:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T02:31:27","slug":"kamala-harris-is-dreaming-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56022","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris Is Dreaming Big"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kamala Harris Is Dreaming Big<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Vogue<\/a>
\nApril 2018<\/p>\n

Abby Aguirre<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nHarris<\/a> in Los Angeles<\/a> with beneficiaries of the DREAM Act<\/a>\u2014which the senator has made a priority to protect.
\nPhotographed by Zoe Ghertner, <\/em>Vogue, April 2018<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

IT\u2019S A COLD JANUARY NIGHT in D.C.<\/a>, and I\u2019m at the Hart Senate Office Building<\/a>, trailing U.S. Senator Kamala Harris<\/a> into a conference room. Inside, a group of young Latino congressional staffers has gathered to meet the Democratic star from California<\/a>. When she enters, flanked by aides, and dressed in a navy suit, matching ruffled blouse, black pearls, and stilettos that give her petite five-feet-four frame a few extra inches of height, the staffers immediately rise from their chairs.<\/p>\n

Harris has an air of celebrity that, under normal circumstances, a freshman senator wouldn\u2019t have had time to acquire. But this year has been anything but normal. She greets the 20-somethings as though they\u2019re relatives at a family reunion: \u201cHi, everybody! Hi, guys!\u201d Then she notices that one of the staffers is still seated, and her voice drops a full octave: \u201cStand up<\/em>, man!\u201d<\/p>\n

The startled staffer springs to his feet. \u201cKevin,\u201d he says, extending a hand.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s your last name?\u201d demands Harris.<\/p>\n

\u201cFigueroa.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThank<\/em> you!\u201d She shakes his hand. \u201cKamala Harris.\u201d (That\u2019s pronounced \u201ccomma-la,\u201d by the way, and you\u2019d better get it right.)…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>
\nHarris with her late mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, who emigrated from India<\/a> to study at Berkeley<\/a> in the \u201960s.
\nPhoto: Courtesy of Kamala Harris<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

…HARRIS\u2019S POLITICAL CAREER\u2014seven years as district attorney in San Francisco<\/a> and then another six as attorney general of California\u2014amounts to an extraordinary run of firsts. She was the first woman and the first person of color to be elected to both positions, and she is now America\u2019s first Indian-American senator and California\u2019s first black senator. In 2012, Harris spoke in prime time at the Democratic National Convention. More Americans learned her name the following year, when President Obama<\/a> apologized for saying Harris was not only \u201cbrilliant,\u201d \u201cdedicated,\u201d and \u201ctough,\u201d but that she \u201calso happens to be, by far, the best-looking attorney general in the country.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She was the first woman and the first person of color to be elected to both positions, and she is now America\u2019s first Indian-American senator and California\u2019s first black senator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1245,8,26,20,25],"tags":[28245,455,28247,19041,28244,25252,28246],"class_list":["post-56022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","category-women","tag-abby-aguirre","tag-california","tag-kamala-devi-harris","tag-kamala-harris","tag-shyamala-gopalan-harris","tag-vogue","tag-zoe-ghertner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56023,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56022\/revisions\/56023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}