Kamala Harris, 2020
Vice President of the United States
48 x 60 inches
Oil on canvas
“Simply put, every issue is a Black woman’s issue, and Black women’s issues are everyone’s issues.”
—Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris is an American politician who became Vice President of the United States alongside Joseph R. Biden as president on January 20, 2021. She is the first female, African American and South Asian American Vice President of the United States and the highest-ranking female elected official in U.S. history. Her stellar career includes District Attorney of San Francisco, Attorney General of California and United States senator from California. It is in this latter position that she came to the nation’s attention immediately becoming a potent symbol for female empowerment with her keen questioning of Trump administration officials during Senate hearings, including Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh who was accused of sexual assault in 2018. It is her fearless, outspoken tenacity in working for justice ‘For The People’ as she herself states that has earned her the reputation of ‘tough fighter’ and who Time magazine named as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" in 2013 and “Person of the Year” with Joe Biden in 2020.