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Massachusetts General Hospital and m. I. T. Her first book is called cured, the people who defeated hiv. She has been published in the new york times, Los Angeles Times and time magazine. In 2016 she published the work that is the basic of her talk tonight, entitled rise of the rocket girls the women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to mars. That work was a bestseller and was widely praised by critics, including one who described it as immersive, evocative, and superbly written. Her narrative should be required reading. Another commented that when Neil Armstrong made his giant leap for mankind, there was womankind in the control room. It is a pleasure to welcome to the university of Mary Washington nathalia holt. [applause] thank you so much. I really appreciate you having me here tonight and i am excited to talk to you about rocket girls. This is a group of pioneers whose careers shaped nasa and really made it what it is today. Before i get into their history, i want to sha
We ask for accommodations, for example, materials in braille instead of print, a lot of society refuses, putting up barriers, and that limits our ability to get an education, to go and get a job. And thats nat fear. So i experienced those realized the law is one way to create change, and i wanted to create change and remove barrier for peeve with disabilities and my own personal story was discrimination and struggle and inspire he to become an attorney. The book is labin, the deafblind woman who conquered harvard law. The first deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School . That is what was that experience like . We had a lot of unknowns. I couldnt reach out to another deafblind harvard law graduate and ask them, how did you do this . How did you too oral arguments, take care of exams. I had to figure a lot of it out, and it actually started way back in elementary school, when i had to learn to advocate for my needs and to navigate the school system. One of my early chapters in