![]() Gopalan's fearlessness, resolve and conviction as a civil rights activist clearly had a rub-off effect on her daughters, both of whom would eventually seek to pursue a degrees in law, before embarking upon careers in public service. ![]() ![]() She also spent 16 years at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at the Jewish General Hospital and the Department of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.ĭuring her time at UC Berkeley, Gopalan was also heavily involved in civil rights activism which is how she came to meet her husband, and Harris' father, Donald Harris, who would later become a professor of economics at Stanford University. Not unlike her two daughters, Kamala and Maya, Gopalan, who was born in Chennai in 1938, was a high achiever who pursued a career in medical research with the greatest conviction.Īfter securing an undergraduate degree from the University of Delhi, and at the age of just 20, Gopalan travelled to the United States to earn a doctorate in nutrition and endocrinology from the University of California, Berkeley.įollowing her graduation, Gopalan would continue to work at the Cancer Research lab at the university as a breast cancer researcher before later taking up positions at the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin. Harris' meteoric ascent to the highest rungs of the political ladder has been exemplary and she has often counted her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, as among her greatest sources of inspiration. ![]()
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