These five Black women were the biggest political winners in 2020

Kamala Harris

California Sen. Kamala Harris is now the first woman vice president-elect in United States history and the first woman of color to make it to the second-highest office as Joe Biden wins the presidency. This Black woman will literally be the most powerful woman in the world.

Harris was born in Oakland, California on October 20, 1964, to Shyamala Gopalan, a cancer researcher from India, and Donald Harris, an economist from Jamaica. She has called herself a progressive, focused on the average American’s desperations in health, employment and education.

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She is seen as a great compliment to incoming president Joe Biden, offering youth, critique of traditional American conception of progress and outreach.