This is Shyamala Gopalan Harris, Kamala Harris' scientist mother. 馃ゥ
When her daughters spoke glowingly of her influence on them at the DNC, I was one of the 300,000 people who flocked to her Wikipedia page to find out more.
It left me curious about her life as a scientist & sent me down a rabbit hole. My new @PLOS post is what I learned:
