Kenseelengounden Stories

Kensi Gounden presenting biography of Barbara Jordan (educator, lawyer and politician) was the first African American since Reconstruction to serve in the Texas Senate and then the first African American woman from the South to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. Barbara Jordan was born in Houston, Texas on February 21, 1936. Due to segregation, Jordan could not attend The University of Texas at Austin, and instead chose Texas Southern University, a historically-black institution. After majoring in political science, Jordan attended Boston University School of law in 1956 and graduated in 1959. Massachusetts bar exam but moved to Tuskegee Institute (later renamed Tuskegee University) in Alabama and taught there for one year before returning to Texas and became a lawyer there as well.

Kensi Gounden - The Making of Lawyer Dr. Athaliah Molokomme Dr. Athaliah Molokomme is the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Botswana to Switzerland and a former Lawyer in Botswana. She holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Botswana and Swaziland,Not only is she a lawyer she has a LLM from Yale Law School, and a PhD in Law from Leiden University. She taught law at the University of Botswana from 1981-1996 and has researched and published extensively in the elds of family law, women and law, customary law and employment law. For the past three decades, she has been a regular speaker at national, regional, and international conferences, workshops and seminars in her areas of expertise as a practicing lawyer.