Biography

Is of Indian and Jamaican descent. Her mother came from India, her father came from Jamaica.

Daughter of Shyamala (Gopalan), a cancer researcher, breast cancer specialist, and civil rights activist, and Donald J. Harris, a Stanford University economics professor. Her father is Jamaican and her mother was a Tamil Indian, from Chennai.

In November 2021, she briefly became the first woman with presidential power when President Joe Biden transferred power to her for approximately 90 minutes while undergoing a colonoscopy.

District attorney of San Francisco (2004-2011).

Her first name is pronounced "comma-la". It is often mispronounced on account of its spelling.

[During the 2020 Democrat debate at Texas Southern University in Houston]The bottom line is this: Donald Trump in office on trade policy, you know he reminds me of that guy in the Wizard of Oz when you pull back the curtain it's a really small dude?

Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically, that's wrong, and it goes against everything that we stand for.

[on gun control] And we'll deal with what we need to deal with in terms of also, as we move forward, all agreeing that we've got to be smarter as a country in terms of who has access to what and, in particular, assault weapons. And we got to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are - because you have been forced to have to take it seriously.

The Governor and I and we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time. Right? The significance of the passage of time. So, when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires, what we need to do to create these jobs. And there is such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of our children and what that means to the future of our nation, depending on whether or not they have the resources they need to achieve their God-given talent.

[on COVID-19] It is time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day. Every day, it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down.