Maya Harris

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Maya Harris (2011)

Maya Lakshmi Harris (* 30th January 1967 in the Champaign-Urbana metropolitan area in Illinois ) is an American lawyer for Public Policy and television presenter . She is a political analyst at MSNBC and was named one of three senior policy advisors in 2015 to lead the development of an agenda for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. She was previously a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress . From 2008 to her current position, she was Vice President for Democracy, Rights and Justice at the Ford Foundation . Prior to joining the Ford Foundation, she was the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California . Prior to joining ACLU, the former Lincoln Law School of San Jose was a senior associate at PolicyLink. She has authored two publications, including a report highlighting community-centered police practices nationwide and an attorney's manual for police reform. Most recently, she was campaign manager until her sister Kamala Harris' presidential campaign was suspended as a candidate for the Democratic Party in the 2020 presidential election in the United States .

Origin and education

Harris was in Champaign-Urbana in Illinois and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Montreal ( Quebec on). She is the daughter of Shyamala Gopalan Harris (1938–2009), a breast cancer researcher who emigrated from Madras , India in 1960 , and of Donald Harris (* 1938), a Jamaican economics professor at Stanford University . Her maternal grandfather, P. V. Gopalan (1911–1998), was a civil servant in the Indian federal government . She and her older sister Kamala grew up with Baptist and Hindu beliefs. At the age of 8, she and her sister persuaded the management of their house to open an unused yard as a playground for children. She gave birth to their only child, Meena Harris, at the age of 17. She received her Bachelor of Arts in 1989 from the University of California, Berkeley . That year she enrolled at Stanford Law School. During her time at Stanford, she was actively involved in the East Palo Alto Community Law Project, where she co-coordinated the Domestic Violence Clinic and co-chaired the student steering committee.

Career

After graduating from Stanford Law School, Harris worked as a trainee lawyer for Judge James Ware (* 1946) at the United States District Court in the Northern District of California. In 1994, Harris joined the Jackson Tufts Cole & Black, LLP law firm in San Francisco , where she served in civil and criminal litigation . In 1997, the National Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division honored her with the Junius W. Williams Young Lawyer of the Year Award . The following year she was from San Francisco Daily Journal as one of the Top 20 Up and Coming Lawyers Under 40: (German Emerging lawyers under 40 excellent).

Harris served as a law professor in the Law School of the University of San Francisco . She also taught contract law at the New College of California School of Law and the Lincoln Law School of San Jose .

Advocacy

Harris was a senior associate at PolicyLink, a national research and action institute dedicated to advancing economic and social justice. In this role, she organized conferences on police community relations and advocated police reform as the author of Organized for Change: The Activist's Guide to Police Reform.

Harris served as the executive director of the Northern California American Civil Liberties Union. In her role as director of the largest ACLU member office, Harris directed and coordinated litigation, media relations, lobbying and organization of grassroots work. "The project's priorities are eliminating racial differences in the criminal justice system and achieving educational equity in California public schools . " In 2003, Harris was Northern California director for No on 54 , a campaign to defeat Proposition 54 that sought to end positive action in the state.

Harris wrote the essay Fostering Accountable Community-Centered Policing (German: Promotion of responsible, community-centered policing ), which appeared in 2006 in the book The Covenant with Black America .

In 2012, Harris was Vice President for Democracy, Rights and Justice at the Ford Foundation. One of the issues she brought up from her position is the issue of child marriage .

family

Maya Harris has been married to Tony West, who is also a lawyer, since July 1998. Maya and Tony were both in the 1992 class at Stanford Law School. Maya and Tony became friends but didn't start dating until they graduated. Their daughter Meena Harris, born in 1984, graduated from Stanford in 2006 and from Harvard Law School in 2012. In 2020 Meena published the children's book Kamala and Maya's Big Idea through her mother and aunt .

Publications

  • Making every vote count: reforming felony disenfranchisement policies and practices in California , with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, San Francisco, California: ACLU of Northern California, 2008 OCLC 1003052693
  • A study of the potential impacts of teleworking , with the University of Waterloo, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Waterloo, Ontario: University of Waterloo , 1995 OCLC 640021255

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tuesdays' Juice. In: Politico. June 20, 2017, accessed August 13, 2020 .
  2. ^ David Nather: Hillary Clinton names top three wonks for campaign. In: Politico. April 15, 2015, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Sari Horwitz: Tony West, third-ranking official at Justice Department, to step down. In: The Washington Post. September 3, 2014, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
  4. ^ Maya Harris, ACLU-NC Executive Director. In: ACLU. June 6, 2008, accessed August 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, by Gwen Ifill, Anchor Books, New York, 2009 in Google Book Search- USA ISBN 978-0-7679-2890-8
  6. ↑ Kamala Harris launches campaign for president , by Christopher Cadelago, January 21, 2019, In: politico.com (English) , (accessed August 13, 2020)
  7. ^ The New Face of Politics ... An Interview with Kamala Harris. In: DesiClub. December 11, 2010, accessed August 13, 2020 .
  8. ↑ PM Golding congratulates Kamala Harris - daughter of Jamaican - on appointment as California's First Woman Attorney General. In: Jamaica Information Service. December 2, 2010, accessed August 13, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Obituary: Dr. Shyamala G. Harris. In: San Francisco Chronicle. March 22, 2009, accessed August 13, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Donna M. Owens: California Attorney General Kamala Harris Plans to be America's Next Black Female Senator. In: Essence (magazine). January 13, 2017, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
  11. ↑ a b Josh Dzieza: Legal Power Sisters Credit Mom. In: The Daily Beast. March 10, 2012, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
  12. ^ Officially Speaking, Student Lawyer, Volume 27, Issue 2, Law Student Division, American Bar Association, December 1998 in Google Book Search USA
  13. ^ Equal Justice Society; Protecting Equally: Dismantling the Intent Doctrine & Healing Racial Wounds, Maya Harris, (German: Equal Justice Society; Equal Protection : Dismantling the Doctrine of Intent & Healing Racial Wounds , Maya Harris )
  14. ↑ Eric Hafertepen: News: We Have to Talk About This. In: CityBeat. July 5, 2001, accessed August 13, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Jane Prendergast: Researchers urge police reforms. In: The Cincinnati Enquirer. June 2, 2001, accessed August 13, 2020 .
  16. ↑ PolicyLink Guide Offers Innovative Strategies for Police Reform Advocates. In: PolicyLink. 2004, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
  17. ^ A b Third World Press (Ed.): The Covenant with Black America . Chicago 2006, ISBN 978-0-88378-277-4 , Fostering Accountable Community-Centered Policing, pp. 71–95 (English, archive.org [accessed August 13, 2020]).
  18. ↑ Prop. 54 soundly beaten: The tide turned when foes of the ballot measure shifted gears from bias to health care. In: The Sacramento Bee. October 8, 2003, accessed August 13, 2020 .
  19. ^ A b Sharon Driscoll: Tony and Maya: Partners in Public Service. In: Stanford Lawyer. May 17, 2010, accessed August 13, 2020 .
  20. ^ Sari Horwitz: Justice Dept. lawyer Tony West to take over as acting associate attorney general. In: Washington Post. March 2, 2012, accessed August 13, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Brooklyn White: Meena Harris On Motivation, Motherhood, And Her Book, 'Kamala And Maya's Big Idea'. In: Essence. April 3, 2020, accessed on August 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Harris, Maya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harris, Maya Lakshmi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Champaign-Urbana Metropolitan Area , Illinois