107 Days

Kamala Harris (b. 1964) is the former vice president of the United States and the author and narrator of 107 Days. Harris was born in Oakland, California, to an Indian mother and a Black Jamaican-born father. She attended Howard University and received her law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She became the district attorney of Alameda County, which includes her hometown of Oakland, and was later elected district attorney of San Francisco and attorney general of California. In 2014, Harris was elected to the US Senate, becoming the second Black woman and the first South Asian American US senator. She campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2019 but withdrew from the race. Democratic nominee Joe Biden selected her as his running mate, and after he was elected, she served as vice president from 2021 to 2025. On July 21, 2025, Joe Biden announced he was abandoning his bid for reelection, and Harris became the Democratic nominee for president.

Harris describes her desire to become a public servant as stemming from a need “to keep people safe and help them thrive” (22). She describes herself as “a protector;” during her career as a prosecutor, it was her job to look out for the most vulnerable and make sure that those who threatened the safety of her community were punished.