Who is Maya Harris, DNC speaker and Kamala Harris's sister?

Maya Harris has a political and legal career to rival that of her sister Kamala.

Before Kamala takes the stage to accept the democratic nomination, Maya will speak at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night in Chicago.

Here's what to know about one-time Wisconsinite Maya Harris, a lawyer, policy advocate and sister to the vice president.

When will Maya Harris speak at the DNC?

Maya Harris is the third speaker listed under the 9 p.m. hour. She will speak after Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and before Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina.

Who is Maya Harris?

Maya Harris is a lawyer and democratic policy advisor from California.

She is Kamala Harris' younger sister, born two years after Kamala. She is 57.

Today, she is married to Tony West, who was a senior official for the Obama campaign.

Maya had her daughter Meena as a teenager. Maya raised Meena while attending college at the University of California-Berkely and through her time at Stanford Law School.

Now, Maya works and lives between New York and California with her husband. She has one daughter, Meena, and two grandchildren.

According to her website, Maya's work is focused on "racial and gender justice, promoting policies that strengthen the U.S. economy and democracy through greater inclusion of women and people of color, particularly women of color."

Notably, Maya was the Senior Policy Advisor to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.

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Maya Harris is also very accomplished

After graduating from Stanford Law School, Maya was a civil litigator and taught law classes as an adjunct professor at U.C. Hastings, now U.C. Law San Francisco, and Lincoln Law School of San Jose, according to her website. She became the dean and Chief Executive Officer of Lincoln Law School at age 29, making her one of the youngest law school deans the nation has ever seen.

Maya worked for PolicyLink, where she studied policy on policing issues, before joining the ACLU of Northern California as Executive Director. Among other achievements at the ACLU, Maya served as lead counsel for League of Women Voters v. McPherson in 2006, which extended voting rights to people in jail as a condition of felony probation.

Maya was also a leader of the Ford Foundation, where she directed more than $750 million of philanthropic investments.

Perhaps most notably, Maya served as Senior Policy Advisor to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. She was also Campaign Chairperson for her sister during Kamala's 2020 primary campaign, and she served as a national surrogate for the Biden-Harris campaign in the general election.

Maya and Kamala Harris lived in Wisconsin for a time

Maya was born in Champaign, Illinois, and her family quickly moved to Madison, Wisconsin. Kamala was 3 and Maya only 1 year old.

Their mother Shyamala worked as a breast cancer researcher in the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Their father was an associate professor of economics at the university.

In her memoir, Kamala cited the family's move to Madison as the reason for her parents' separation.

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: What to know about Maya Harris, Kamala Harris's sister and DNC speaker