Shyamala Gopalan figures large in Vice President Harris’ life story — and her motivation to break barriers in politics.
Harris takes the oath of office as San Francisco's district attorney on Jan. 8, 2004. Her mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan, holds a copy of"The Bill of Rights."When Shyamala Gopalan approached her father with an acceptance letter to the University of California, Berkeley and announced her dream of becoming a scientist, she was just 19 years old.It was an unusual move by a woman whose own barrier-breaking choices would allow her daughter, Kamala Harris, to do the same.
“In America, we're considered Black women. And that's how our mothers raised us, because that's what they knew we would be seen as,”Dr. Shyamala Gopalan in her lab at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where she worked as a biomedical scientist. Her work was focused on hormone receptors in breast-cancer development.
“The experience of hoping when you're going through chemotherapy that we can give you clothes that are soft enough because your skin is so sensitive. The experience of trying to make sure that the medication on each of the charts actually matches up,” she said.
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