Who is Laurene Powell Jobs? Career, Family, Net Worth and Relationship with Kamala Harris

Laurene Powell Jobs is a prominent American businesswoman and philanthropist with a Net worth of around $15 billionaccording to Forbes.

She was born on November 6, 1963 in West Milford, New Jersey and is best known as the widow of Apple co-founder Steve JobsShe has built a close friendship with Vice President Kamala Harris over the past two decades and has become one of her most trusted advisors and financial supporters.

The life of Laurene Powell Jobs

She earned her BA in Political Science and BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvaniafollowed by an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. At the beginning of her career, she worked at Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch Asset Management, among others.

Powell Jobs has made significant investments in media, Owner of The Atlantic and a stake in AxiosIn 2017, it acquired a 20 percent stake in Monumental Sports & Entertainment, which owns NBA and NHL teams.

Powell Jobs met Steve Jobs 1989, when they attended a lecture at Stanford Business School. They married in 1991 and had three children together: Reed, Erin and Eve. She is also stepmother to Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Steve's daughter from a previous relationship.

After the death of Steve Jobs in 2011 Powell Jobs inherited the Steven P. Jobs Trustincluding significant shares in Apple and Disney. Since then, she has been actively involved in philanthropy and impact investing.

In 1997, she co-founded College Track, a nonprofit that helps underserved students prepare for college. She later founded Emerson Collective, a private company that supports social entrepreneurs and focuses on education, immigration reform, and environmental justice. In 2021, she founded the Waverley Street Foundation, Promise to pay $3.5 billion within a decade to combat climate change and promote environmental justice.