Guest i focus on using my skills to advance operatives with people with disabilities. Host why did you choose that type of law . Guest i was born deaf blind. Most of a rope is designed for people who can see and hear, and will ask for accommodations, for example, getting materials, all of society refuses, putting up barriers and hertz hearts is ga job and thats not fair. I experienced a lot of those barriers and i realized the law is one way we can create change. I wanted to create change and remove barriers for people with disabilities. My own personal story is discrimination and struggle inspired me to become an attorney. Host and here is her book, haben the deafblind woman who conquered harvard law. First deaf blind person to graduate from harvard, is that correct, from Harvard Law School . Guest thats host what was that experience like . Guest 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 do o
Why do you choose that type of law quick. I was bored deaf blind and then i have to ask for accommodations and that ability to get an education and with people with disabilities and that struggle inspired me to become an attorney. Here is her book. The first deaf blind person to graduate from harvard law schoo school . Yes. What was that experience like quick. There were a lot of unknowns. I could not reach out to another deaf blind harvard law graduate to say how do you do that . Had you taken exam . I had to figure a lot of it out and that started way back in elementary school. And i was extremely surprised about trying to do an assignment and to investigate what was going on and i was in california in the mainstream Public School in a classroom with nondisabled students and then they realize the teacher was writing assignments on the board. So i needed an instructor to read the assignment so if i did that i would never be successful i had to be my own advocate and i started advocati
Guest im focused on using my skills to advance people with disabilities. Host why did you choose the type of law . Guest i was born deaf blind and when we ask for accommodations, a lot of society refuses that ability to get a better education and go and get a job. The law is to create change and i wanted to create change for people with disabilities. My own story inspired me to become an attorney. Host here is her book the deaf blind woman who conquered harvard law. First deaf blind person to graduate from harvard, is that correct, from Harvard Law School . Guest host what was that experience like . Guest we had a lot of unknowns. I couldnt reach out to another deaf blind harvard graduate and ask them how did you do this, how did you do your arguments, how did you take exams . I have t had to figure a lot of. It started way back in Elementary School when i had to learn to advocate for my needs and navigate the school system. The early chapters in my book its an experience where a teach
Most of the world is designed for people who can see and hear and when we ask for accommodation , for example in braille instead of print, that limits our ability to get aneducation, to go and get a job. Ive experienced a lot of those barriers and i realized the law allows us to create change and i wanted to create change so my own personal story is, my struggle inspired me to become an attorney. Here is her book haben, the death blind woman who conquered harvard law, first deaf blind person to graduate from harvard law school, is that right . Thats right what was that experience like . We had a lot of unknowns. I reached out to another deaf blind harvard graduate and asked them how did you do this . How did you do oral arguments , how did you do exams . I had to figure a lot of it out and it ultimately started back in almond trace law when i had to learn to navigate the school systems. One of my early chapters in my book is an experience where a teacher told me i was failing at class
She is also a lawyer. Ms. Girma, what kind of law do you practice . Guest would you call me haben . Host haben, yes, maam. Guest and the kind of law i do is disability rights. Im focused on using my skills to advance opportunities for people with disabilities. Host why did you choose that type of law . Guest i was born deafblind. Most of our world is designed for people who can see and hear, and when we ask for accommodations for example, getting 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 not fair. So i experienced a lot [inaudible] and the law is one way that we can create change. And i wanted to create a change and remove barriers so people with disabilities for people with disabilities. Is so my own personal story and struggle inspired me to become an attorney. Host and here is her book, has beenen the deafblind woman who conquered harvard law. First deafblind pe