Irina Dana de Lesseps Gordon was a politician, negotiator and later academic of the 22nd and 23rd centuries. Gordon was born in 2119 in Mogadishu, Somalia, to Liam Gordon and Maia Adiwoso de Lesseps. At the age of 18, Gordon married her high school sweetheart, Allen Djaha, before she entered Harvard University. They were divorced five years later. (Star Trek: Shadowstar Station: "Irina") Gordon graduated from Columbia University School of Law in 2145 and received a graduate degree in diplomatic psychology from Georgetown University years later.