How the Bay Area Shaped Kamala Harris

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🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In her acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination, Kamala Harris used “the Bay” when talking about where she grew up, rather than name-check Berkeley and its counterculture reputation. And she doesn’t always jump at the chance to call-out progressive San Francisco, where she first made her name in politics. But those omissions don’t seem to be dimming the local pride and excitement over the Oakland-born candidate’s historic nomination. We’ll look back at Harris’ Bay Area background and how it shaped her career, ideas and political identity. Guests: Lateefah Simon, BART Board member, Longtime friend and mentee of Kamala Harris Debbie Mesloh, former advisor and communications director, for Kamala Harris Carole Porter, childhood friend of Kamala Harris Marisa Lagos, politics correspondent, KQED - co-host of KQED's Political Breakdown Stacey Johnson-Batiste, childhood friend of Kamala Harris, and author of "Friends from the Beginning: The Berkeley Village That Raised Kamala and Me" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.9	From KQED. There was a moment in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:57.0	There was a moment in Kamala Harris' acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention
1:02.0	that I found so fascinating. She called where she grew up, the quote, East Bay, which
1:06.0	doesn't mean much to people outside Northern California, and then she talked about being from the flatlands, not the hills.
1:12.6	The national press has focused on her not saying Berkeley, but I could not get over
1:17.3	hearing our real geography described in the way that we'd say it.
1:22.0	And I thought a legit Bay Area person may be the president soon.
1:26.3	So today we talk with people who've long known her about Kamala Harris's Bay Area person may be the president soon. So today we talk with people who've long known her about Kamala Harris's Bay Area roots
1:32.3	and how they shaped her career, ideas, and political identity.
1:35.3	That's coming up next after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:50.0	Kamala Harris was born in Oakland and spent a chunk of her childhood in Berkeley, in the flats on Bancroft.
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