Haben Girma - Trailblazer for people with disabilities

Haben Girma is a a trailblazer for people with disabilities. She’s a passionate dancer, surfer, and climber, and is the first DeafBlind person to graduate from Harvard law. Her best-selling book, “Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law,” shares her incredible adventures that led to her resolve, perspective, and humor that makes her the amazing woman she is. For this interview, she is using a system to communicate that she invented, in which she connects a keyboard wirelessly to her digital braille device. A transcript of this episode can be found here.

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