1. Her parents met at the University of California, Berkeley and married in 1963, they divorced when she was 7.
2. She’s the third woman selected as a vice presidential candidate for a major party ticket.
3. Her father is a professor at Stanford University and immigrated from Jamaica, he’s now a naturalized US citizen.
4. Her late mother was a cancer researcher immigrated from India, she died in 2009.
5. In 2016, she became the second black woman elected to the Senate.