As Clinton's campaign representative to the Democratic Party Platform Committee, Harris helped draft the 2016 platform, considered the most progressive party platform in the Democratic Party's history. She was a political and legal analyst for MSNBC from 2017 until 2018, and she served as campaign chairwoman for her sister's 2020 campaign for president until the campaign's suspension. She has been called "the next Bobby Kennedy." Harris was formerly a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School. From 2008 until 2013, Harris was Vice President for Democracy, Rights and Justice at the Ford Foundation. Prior to joining the Ford Foundation, she served as the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California, the largest ACLU affiliate in the country. Before joining the ACLU, the former law school dean (Lincoln Law School of San Jose) was a Senior Associate at PolicyLink.