The 2020 Democratic Candidates’ First Jobs – Kamala Harris: Pipette Cleaner

Prior to her ascension to the United States Senate in 2017, Kamala Harris had a meteoric rise through the ranks of the legal world, from a 26-year-old deputy district attorney to San Francisco D.A. and finally to Attorney General of the state of California.

But her work life all started under parental supervision. Harris’s mother was a scientist who specialized in breast cancer research, and she would bring her kids along to help out at the lab.

“My mother had two goals in her life – to raise her two daughters and end breast cancer,” she said. “She would take us to the lab with her, you know, after school and on weekends. Little known fact… my first job ever was cleaning pipettes.”

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