I was drawn to Obama. His politics. But there was more.

I have lived my whole life with a complex hyphenated identity (Iranian-American). For the first time in my life I could see a tiny bit of my experience in a president. In Indian-Jamaican-American Kamala Harris I see it too.

Being the son or daughter of an immigrant was never the "most important" part of Barack Obama or Kamala Harris& #39; identity.

But it& #39;s there, quietly in the corner. And for a lot of us kids of BIPOC immigrants, that& #39;s something we never got to see in the White House until recently.

In my lifetime I don& #39;t think I& #39;ll ever see a president with my own ethnic identity (Iranian-American).

We can& #39;t all be represented in that way.

But it& #39;s still meaningful to see a daughter of immigrants who has wrestled with similar issues that all 2nd generation ppl deal with.