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Indian-American Maya Harris Leads Hillary Clinton's Agenda Team
Thursday, 16 April 2015, 22:38 IST
Harris, 46, has a background in human rights, having served as Vice President of Democracy, Rights and Justice at the Ford Foundation, where she led a team that promoted effective governance, democracy and human rights around the world.
She is the younger sister of Kamala Harris, California's first Indian-American-African attorney general who is now running for Senate.
Their mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a cancer researcher who came to the U.S. from Chennai in 1960, is of Indian descent while their father is from Jamaica.
Harris received her bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley and graduated with distinction from Stanford Law School.
At age 29, Harris was recruited to serve as dean and chief executive officer of Lincoln Law School of San Jose making her one of the country's youngest law school deans.
Harris later served as executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, of Northern California, where she led the litigation, public education, advocacy, and organizing efforts of the nation's largest ACLU affiliate.
Harris is married to Tony West, who left the Obama administration last September after five years as associate attorney general, the third top official in the Justice Department. They have one daughter, Meena.
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Source: IANS
