Indian Consulate Hosted Float Showcasing Northeast as a teenager, forged her career as a breast cancer researcher, joined the ongoing civil rights movement and raised Kamala Harris and another daughter, Maya Harris by herself.

in nutrition and endocrinology, by the age of 25 and spent her early career conducting research at BerkeleyвЂ™s Dept of Zoology and Cancer Research Lab. Gopalan, her father who was a diplomat in the Indian government, Shyamala Gopalan graduated from the Delhi University, and came to the University of California, Berkeley and earned a Ph.D. The San Francisco Chronicle ran her obituary on March 22, 2009, in which she was described as a вЂњworld-renowned scientist, a mentor, an activist, a motherвЂќ who вЂњDespite her 5-ft stature, вЂ¦ was a commanding presence characterized by a sharp wit, keen sense of humor and endless depth of knowledge.вЂќД«orn in south India to Rajam, her mother, and P.V. Yoga is Symbol of Unity and Strength: Baba Ramdev And вЂ“ like millions of the children of immigrants before and since вЂ“ it made us Americans.вЂќ This, an act of self-determination, made me and my sister Maya. She went against a practice reaching back thousands of years and instead of an arranged marriage, chose a love marriage. The plan was to go back home when she finished school, but when she met my father Donald Harris, she made a different plan. My mother, Shyamala Harris arrived at the University of California-Berkeley from India in 1959.

вЂњI wanted to share one last story today for immigrant heritage month вЂ“ my own. Senator Kamala Harris, who has posted several immigrant stories in previous weeks, has posted an entry on the Facebook, about her Indian-American mother.

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