Kamala Harris is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current Vice President of the United States of America. She was born in Oakland, California to parents who emigrated from India and Jamaica. Her mother was a Tamil Indian biologist, and her father was a Jamaican. Harris is the first female Vice President and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African-American and first Asian-American Vice President. She is a member of the Democratic Party and has served as the attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017 and as a U.S. Senator.