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More than 30 of Harris’s sorority sisters traveled across the country to meet in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention this past week, where Harris formally accepted the party’s nomination as its presidential hopeful. “We have gathered here today because we are so excited about our line sister, Kamala Harris — Vice President Harris,” said Monique Poydras, an organizer of the event, about why she and her sorority sisters were there to support Harris.
For many of Harris’s fellow AKA members, getting people to the polls and Harris into the Oval Office are personal matters. From California to Washington, D.C., her sorority sisters have been there every step of the way. “We galvanized and we did what we could do to influence and encourage people to register to vote and to support financially, because we know money speaks, and that is an important part of every election.”
“I think a unique lens for us is her line sisters, as we get to paint the human side of Kamala,” Brown said. “People have only sort of known her in her public service, so they often wonder, ‘Is she really this? Is she really that?’” “I had brain surgery, and I talk about it because it is something real, and I realize it empowers me to support someone else who might be taking that journey,” Brown said. “I had just had surgery.
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