The Oneida Daily Dispatch (Oneida, NY)
Family life
Harris was born in 1964 in Oakland, California. Her mother, an immigrant from India, was a scientist studying treatments for breast cancer. Her father immigrated from British Jamaica and was a professor of economics at Stanford University. Harris and her younger sister, Maya, grew up in Berkeley, California.
After her parents divorced, Harris moved with her mother to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where she went to high school.
She studied at Howard University and received her law degree from the University of California. In 2014, Harris married Doug Emhoff, also an attorney, and became a stepmother to his two children.