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Kensi Gounden - The Making of Lawyer Dr. Athaliah Molokomme

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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. She has served on several boards, commissions, and professional organisations at a national, regional and international level. Awards include the Women’s Human Rights Award from Women, Law and Development International in 1993, the Presidential Order of Meritorious Service for Exceptional Service to Botswan...

Kensi Gounden – The True Story Behind “Hélène Keke Aholou”

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Hélène Keke Aholou,  a lawyer and politician in Benin. She was called to the bar for the first time in Paris, France and has expertise as a family lawyer. She called to the bar of Cotonou in 2008. More than 20 years he worked as a lawyer for the government. Keke was a member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Benin in 2007-11 fifth and sixth convocations 2011-2015. She was the Chairperson of the Commission Assemblies laws and human rights in December 2012, when it was abolished the death penalty. Keke resigned from the governing forces treasure for an emerging Benin party in 2015. She picked up the violations during the elections from the press and the government in February 2016, ahead of the 2016 presidential election Benin, including check-in more than 51 polling stations than allowed by law. In may 2016, she was appointed as one of 30 members of the National Commission on political and institutional reforms new independent President Patrice Talon. Citations: ...

Kensi Gounden – The True Story Behind “Thurgood Marshall”

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Kensi Gounden writing the biography of famous American lawyer Thurgood Marshall , originally Thorough good Marshall, (born July 2, 1908, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died January 24, 1993, Bethesda), lawyer, civil rights activist, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the Court’s first African American member. As an attorney, he successfully argued before the Court the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which declared unconstitutional racial segregation in American public schools. Marshall was the son of William Canfield Marshall, a railroad porter and a steward at an all-white country club, and Norma Williams Marshall, an elementary school teacher. He graduated with honor’s from Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) in 1930. After being rejected by the University of Maryland Law School because he was not white, Marshall attended Howard University Law School; he received his degree in 1933, ranking first in his class. At Howard he was the protégé of Charles Hamilton ...

Kensi Gounden - Famous American Female Lawyer Charlotte E. Ray

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Kensi Gounden writing the biography of famous American teacher and lawyer. Charlotte E. Ray was an American lawyer. She was the first black American female lawyer in the United States Ray studied at the Institution for the Education of Colored Youth in Washington, D.C., and by 1869 she was teaching at Howard University. There she studied law, receiving her degree in 1872. Her admission that year to the District of Columbia bar made her the first woman admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and the first black woman certified as a lawyer in the United States. Ray opened her law office in Washington, D.C., but racial prejudices proved too strong, and she could not obtain enough legal business to maintain an active practice. By 1879 she had returned to New York City, where she taught in the public schools. In the late 1880s she married a man with the surname of Fraim; little is known of her later life. Ray was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar on March 2, 1872 and admi...

Kensi Gounden - The Making Of Barbara Jordan First African American Lawyer

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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. Both as a state senator and as a U.S. congresswoman, she sponsored bills that championed the poor, the disadvantaged and people of color. As a congresswoman, she spons...

Kensi Gounden - Biography of Macon Bolling Allen, First Black US Lawyer.

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Kensi Gounden - Macon Bolling Allen was the first recorded licensed African American lawyer in the United States. He was a self-taught lawyer who gained his knowledge and legal skills by serving as an apprentice and law clerk to practicing white lawyers in the pre-Civil War era. Negros as they were referred to in those times received their training by apprenticeship; however, they could not depend upon the practice of law for a living. They had to work at other crafts. Allen was also known as a businessman, but the nature of the business is not known. Little is known about Allen's early years other than the fact that he was named A. Macon Bolling when he was born a “Free Negro” in Indiana in 1816, the same year Indiana was admitted as the nineteenth state to join the Union. He was listed as “mulatto” race on early census forms. Allen learned how to read and write as he grew up, and his first job in Indiana was that of a schoolteacher. On July 3, 1844, Allen passed the exam and b...

Kensi Gounden – Role Of A Marketing Consultant In Successful Sales And Marketing

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Nowadays, technology and digitalization have advanced the way to do the marketing of products and services. The latest technology has come to play its role in a pretty amazing way by confronting the global audience. To combat the eCommerce competition, there is a need to have expert professionals who can analyse every aspect of business marketing and trends. They are marketing consultants, who deliver the services to several businesses to engage their audience positively.  Kensi Gounden  is a marketing consultant expert; he has years of experience to serve all types and sizes of companies. A marketing consultant better knows the way to expand the client base. The need for a profound strategy is always there to achieve business objectives through marketing efforts. Marketing consultant also assists the sale team and work in collaboration and towards the same goal that is to increase revenue. A marketing consultant has productive role in identifying the opportunities with regard...

Kensi Gounden - How To Become A Small Business Coach

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Kensi Gounden Says Becoming a life AND business coach is a niche that is both rewarding and lucrative. When it gets down issues such as planning, recruitment, marketing, succession or systems the coaching can tip over into mentoring and consulting so you need to have the skills and experience to honestly serve the client. As a coach for a business owner you will facilitate client in their confidence and ability to run the operation and cope with the day to day challenges and business relationships and maybe even family issues and work life balance. As a mentor you may drawn on your own business experience to assess and advice on what needs to be done with the business itself and as a consultant you may even give specific advice and help with implementation. So if you are offering coaching for small business you need to make sure both you and the client understand the parameters and boundaries and have a written agreement on what you can and will deliver. According to Kensi Gounden , H...

Kensi Gounden - Ten Vintage Ideas to Spark Innovation in Your Classroom

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Kensi Gounden says, Vintage innovation happens when we use old ideas and tools to transform the present. Think of it as a mash-up. It’s not a rejection of new tools or new ideas. Instead, it’s a reminder that sometimes the best way to move forward is to look backward. Like all innovation, vintage innovation is disruptive. But it’s disruptive by pulling us out of present tense and into something more timeless. This isn’t meant to be nostalgic. There are certainly horrible things in the past that we don’t want to repeat. However, in the ed tech drive toward collective novelty, we often miss out on the classic and the vintage. According to kensi gounden , here are ten ways you can embrace the vintage in your classroom. Sketch-Noting Commonplace Books Prototyping with Duct Tape and Cardboard Apprenticeships The Natural World Play Socratic Seminars Games and Simulations Experiments Manipulatives A garden is valuable but students can videochat with an expert at a greenhouse. It’s powerful t...

Kensi Gounden - Five Keys To Athletic Self-Motivation

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Kensi Gounden says, Highly self-motivated players are willing to do everything they can to become the best that they can be and are not dependent on others for rewards. This drive must be directed into physical conditioning, technical training, mental preparation, and general lifestyle including diet, sleep, school, family and social relationships. A simple progression helps illustrate the importance of motivation to performance: High Motivation + Total Preparation = Maximum Performance! What is Motivation? Simply put, motivation is the ability to initiate and persist at a task. This desire to participate in an activity comes from the belief that it provides some type of intrinsic (e.g., satisfaction, joy) or extrinsic (e.g., validation from others, wealth) rewards. At a practical level, it is these rewards that enable players to keep working hard in the face of boredom, fatigue, physical pain, and the desire to do other things. Though intrinsic and extrinsic motivation can both be ef...

Kensi Gounden - Success Tips for Young and Aspiring Entrepreneurs

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To stand out from your competitors, you have to be innovative. Being innovative will not only boost your keep you ahead but it will also ensure you develop a refreshed team spirit. Innovativeness is boosted through collaboration with employees of the company and embracing new ideas as they come. It’s a common scenario to find companies investing time and resources to see how they can promote an innovative culture in their businesses. According to Kensi Gounden , these are the success tips for young and Aspiring Entrepreneurs #1- Step back, change your setting #2- Surround Yourself with Thinkers #3- Embed innovation into your company culture #4- Encourage horizontal communication #5- Value the lessons #6- We use the ‘Yes and…’ rule #7- Stay inspired #8- Get back to putting humans first #9- Creating a certain flow at work #10- Pay attention to your hiring process #11- Stay focused and push through failure If you need more information regarding this topic you can consult Kensi Gounden ...