Karthick Ramakrishnan

University of California, Riverside

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Professor and associate dean of the University of California, Riverside's School of Public Policy and director of AAPI, a project to make data on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders accessible; co-author of The New Immigration Federalism; director of the National Asian American Survey; contributor to Taking Local Control: Immigration Policy Activism in US Cities and States

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Kamala Harris is both the first Black woman and the first South Asian woman to appear on a major party’s presidential ticket. Her mother is Indian.

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