Usha Chilukuri Vance is the wife of U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance. Born in San Diego, California, in 1986 to Indian immigrant parents, she grew up in a family that emphasized education and strong cultural roots, and was raised Hindu. Academically accomplished, she earned her bachelor’s degree from Yale University, a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, and later a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, where she met J.D. Vance. After law school, she cl