Kamala Harris is given an American Sign Language sign name after she became president Joe Biden’s vice president. VP Harris' name sign was created by a team of Black and Indian Deaf women, Smita Kothari, Ebony Gooden, Kavita Pipalia, and Candace Jones, who worked together for a couple of weeks. This particular women’s group worked together in order to come up with a list of possible sign names and then sent out a survey to the Deaf community at large to collect their votes from February 1 to 5, 2021.
Deaf culture consists of many valued traditional aspects which are significant to the Deaf community, and one of them is the “name sign.” A name sign is a sign that is solely given to the individual, and it is usually made according to the individual's qualities, persona, interests, etc., which uniquely and distinctively identify an individual. It plays a significant role in defining who exactly the individual is and their personal identity.
Watch this video to know how to do VP Harris' name sign: