Kamala Harris receives an American Sign Language sign name after she was elected as president Joe Biden’s vice president. VP Harris' name sign was made by a group of Black and Indian Deaf women, Smita Kothari, Ebony Gooden, Kavita Pipalia, and Candace Jones, who worked with each other for several weeks. This women’s group worked collaboratively in order to put together a list of possible sign names and afterwards sent out a survey to the Deaf community at large to get their votes from February 1 to 5, 2021.

Deaf culture has a number of valued traditional aspects that happen to be vital to the Deaf community, and one of them is the "name sign." A name sign is a sign that's exclusively given to the individual, and it is frequently created based on the individual's qualities, personality, hobbies, etc., which in turn uniquely and distinctively identify an individual. A name sign plays a major part in identifying who exactly the person is and their personal identity.