Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?
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Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?
She was raised in Berkeley by civil rights activists and became politically active during anti-Apartheid protests at Howard University. Then she turned a career as a prosecutor into being one of the most progressive members of the Senate. She was the first Black woman and first South Asian person on...
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8 episodes
Bonus: Who Is Vice President Kamala Harris?
A lot has happened since this podcast biography published, including Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ victory in the November election. On the eve of her...
Episode 1: The Top Cop
Kamala Harris starts out as an assistant D.A. in Alameda County and rises through the ranks of prosecutors to become, in her words, “the top cop” — Sa...
Episode 2: Bigger Job, Bigger Fights
As attorney general, Kamala Harris takes on Wall Street and wins. It’s part of what she says is her career-long fight “for the people.” But there are...
Episode 3: That Little Girl Was Me
Who is Kamala Harris? Where did she come from? What shaped her worldview, her political stances and her career choices? A look at her childhood in Ber...
Episode 4: Why a Prosecutor?
Following in the footsteps of one of her heroes, Thurgood Marshall, Kamala Harris attends historically Black Howard University and joins one of the “D...
Episode 5: That Little Girl From Berkeley Goes to Washington
Kamala Harris is elected to the Senate the same night that Donald Trump is elected president. The victory speech she’d planned suddenly becomes useles...
Episode 6: I'm Speaking
After a failed presidential campaign during which she clashed with Democratic front-runner Joe Biden, Kamala Harris returns to Washington and soon bec...
Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris? Trailer
Is she a progressive or a cop? A Berkeley radical or a Beltway insider? In this biographical series, San Francisco Chronicle reporters Joe Garofoli an...