BERKELEY — Sen. Kamala Harris will deliver the commencement address at UC Berkeley for this year’s graduating class, the university announced Tuesday.
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Harris, a Howard University graduate who attended UC Hastings College of the Law, will speak before about 40,000 graduates, family and friends May 12 at California Memorial Stadium.
“My parents met at UC Berkeley when they were active in the civil rights movement, so this university will always mean a great deal to me,” Harris told the university in a statement. “I look forward to speaking to these young people who are on the verge of the next chapter of their lives and represent the future of our country.”
Donald Harris, a Jamaican economics graduate student, met and fell in love with Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a nutrition and endocrinology student who came from India in 1958.
The state’s junior senator, who some consider a likely future Democratic presidential candidate, was a former Alameda County prosecutor, San Francisco district attorney and state attorney general.
She now serves on several key senate committees and keeps an active schedule in her home state, speaking at events like such as month’s State of the Valley conference. She also has endorsed San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo’s re-election campaign and California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s gubernatorial campaign.
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