who is Maya Harris Kamala Harris's sister plus highlights from her DNC speech Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris often speaks of her mother shamala gopalan as someone who encouraged her and helped Inspire her trajectory Harris's younger sister Maya Harris one of the vice president's closest confidants again mentioned their mother on this historic night at one point she seemed to be getting emotional at wondering what gopalan would say at seeing her eldest daughter accept the Democratic party's nomination for president I could just see her smiling saying how proud she is of Kamala she said and then without missing a beat she'd say that's enough you have work to do Harris served as campaign chairperson of her sister's 20120 presidential campaign she's also a lawyer and previously served as the vice president of democracy rights and Justice and an officer of the philanthropic Foundation the Ford Foundation like her sister Maya Harris is a lawyer and served as a senior policy adviser for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaigns policy agenda Harris also served as campaign chairperson of her sister's 2020 presidential campaign she also previously served as the vice president of democracy rights and Justice and an officer of the philanthropic Foundation the Ford Foundation she is a graduate of Stanford Law School