Eunice Townsend

My name is Eunice Townsend. I am now retired from the Board of Education as a Speech and Language teacher.  I became a Grandassa model with the sole intention of merely modeling clothes.  However, my experience as a Grandassa model ushered in the knowledge of my African self. Elombe, taught history and pride, and Kwame made me realize the beauty in my blackness: my unique hair texture, my full hips, my succulent lips and to be proud of all of that.!!! 

How could I possible be anything else but proud. Up to that time, the media did not reflect me, the opposite of what I looked like was constantly espoused instilling in me and most young black women the emotional feeling of inferiority. 

After becoming family with the Grandassa women another woman emerged and continues to be a proud African woman.  Hotep!