'You're my role model, who taught me I could do or be anything I wanted,' Meena said. Meena Harris affectionately called Kamala Harris her 'auntie' during the DNC.
Meena was four years old when she introduced Maya to her husband, lawyer Tony West, after Meena had played a game of hide-and-seek with him at Stanford, according to the Stanford Lawyer.Įarlier this year, Maya announced she has been battling lupus for the past three decades.
Maya gave birth at age 17 to her daughter, Meena Harris. 'The fact that she has volunteered to work on this campaign at such a high level, and she's exactly who she's always been - she works around the clock and she's probably the hardest, if not one of the hardest working people on the campaign - I feel very blessed.' 'I think most people who know Maya will tell you she's one of the smartest people they know,' Kamala said in an interview last year with Politico. She graduated from Stanford Law School and the University of California-Berkeley. She also served as an adviser on Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential race and, prior to that, headed up the northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Maya was the campaign chairwoman of Harris' presidential bid.