Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, and served on the Shirley Chisholm Presidential Accountability Commission in 2010. Harris was a policy fellow for the Hubert. Powell and she was Rockefeller Humanities Resident with the Institute of African-American Studies, University of Georgia. Harris was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota Law School under the direction of John A. In 2007 Harris began law school at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, where she earned her J.D. That same year she was named one of "Thirty Young Leaders of the Future" by Ebony Magazine. Her dissertation was nominated for the Henry Gabriel Prize. In 1991, Harris earned her Bachelor of Arts in American history and Afro-American studies, and in 1997 she earned her PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. Her activism was reported in Wayne Glasker's, Black Students in the Ivory Tower: African American Student Activism at the University of Pennsylvania, 1967-1990. During her time in college, Harris was elected student body president, she was first Black women to serve in this role at an Ivy League institution, and was a key activist figure in her class. Harris completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a Mellon Mays Fellow. When she was 14, Harris received an academic scholarship to attend Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut.
Her maternal grandmother, Miriam Daniel Mann, was a mathematician at NASA. Harris was born in Virginia, the daughter of Miriam Mann Harris and Frank Harris, Jr. JSTOR ( May 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. This section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification.
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