Kamala Harris, the daughter of an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father, began her career as a prosecutor. Kamala Harris is an American politician and attorney who has been the 49th and current vice president of the United States since 2021, serving under President Joe Biden. She is the first female, African American, and Asian American vice president, making her the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history. In 1990, Harris was hired as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County, California, where she was described as “an able prosecutor on the way up”.