While Vice President JD Vance rips through DEI initiatives across the nation, his mother-in-law, Lakshmi Chilukuri, is a proud pioneer of diversity, equity, and inclusion at her own job. The provost of the University of California San Diego’s Sixth College and a teaching professor in its Department of Microbiology,

Although he's become the vice president, JD Vance had a difficult childhood due to his strained relationship with his mother, Beverly Aikins.