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Maya harris age7/1/2023 “When Aunt Kamala and mom were young and would come home from school complaining about something they felt was unfair, my grandma would reply, ‘Well, what are you going to do about it? Don’t sit around and complain about things, do something,’” Meena told NBC News. However after a brief legal career (in which she was a data privacy and cybersecurity attorney at a major global law firm), Meena realized that a traditional legal career might not be for her. I saw so much of my mother and my aunt, and them becoming powerful women in the world starting in their 20s. I got to see her go through her first law firm job. It also helped that Meena got to witness the impact of those words firsthand: "I had a 17-year-old single mom," she told Harper's Bazaar. "And we were really made to believe that." (One example: You may be the first, but don't be the last.) "She was deliberate, and I know this may seem cliché, but she was deliberate about teaching us that we could be anything, that we could do anything," Maya told Glamour. "I just idolized them-these incredible women who were all around me." At just 36 years old, the Harvard-educated lawyer is the founder and CEO of Phenomenal (a female-powered organization that brings awareness to various social causes), a best-selling children's book author (she published Ambitious Girl on January 19 and Kamala and Maya's Big Idea last year), and is the mother of two young daughters herself.Ī single mom, Maya stayed home while getting her undergraduate degree at the University of California-Berkeley and putting herself through Stanford Law School-which allowed Meena to spend lots of quality time with her grandmother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, who taught her many of the same lessons that she previously instilled in Maya and Kamala. "I grew up surrounded by these strong, brilliant women who showed me what it meant to show up in the world with purpose and intention," Meena told Glamour earlier this year. So it should come as no surprise that Maya's daughter, Meena Harris, is carrying on that legacy-with a list of achievements that are equally impressive. Then, there's Vice President Kamala Harris, who, among many other firsts, will be the first female vice president and there's her younger sister, Maya Harris, a civil rights lawyer and public policy advocate, who once led the nation's largest ACLU affiliate. It started with the late Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a prominent breast cancer researcher, civil rights activist, and single mother of two daughters, Kamala and Maya. For the Harris women, social change and female empowerment is a family affair.
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