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'Ambitious Girl' Reminds Kids: Your Dreams Are Not A Drawback

When now Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was "accused" of being "too ambitious" on the campaign trail, it spurred her niece, activist and author Meena Harris, into action.
Source: Meena Harris and Marissa Valdez

When now Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris was "accused" of being "too ambitious" on the campaign trail, it spurred her niece, activist and author Meena Harris, into action.

"It really just stopped me in my tracks. ... I had had enough," Harris says.

So she wrote a children's book called in the hope that no young woman in the next generation would have

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