Haben Girma, the first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, advocates for people to celebrate her community and take action for accessibility for more than a month. Girma is an author ...

"My years of isolation taught me to create the future that I want," says Haben Girma, 31 Haben Girma doesn’t believe in setting limits. Deafblind since birth, the disability rights attorney has ...

Haben Girma is an author, lawyer, speaker and disability rights advocate who’s been honored by world leaders including Justin Trudeau, Angela Merkel and former President Barack Obama, the latter of ...

When you get ready to complain or think of an excuse about why you can’t do or accomplish something, think of Haben Girma. You just might find that her story gives you the inspiration you need to push ...

They're all things California-based human rights attorney Haben Girma has accomplished with limited sight and limited hearing, becoming her alma mater's first deafblind law graduate in 2013. But Girma ...

The Reves Center for International Studies, in cooperation with the William & Mary Law School Center for Comparative Legal Studies and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and William & Mary's Office of ...

Meet Haben Girma. The 30-year-old was born in Oakland, California to Ethiopian parents who escaped Eritrea in 1983 during the country’s independence war. Haben was born deaf and blind. However, due to ...

In ordinary times, people with disabilities are regularly confronted with ableism, or in the words of Disability Rights Lawyer Haben Girma, “the widespread assumption that disabled people are inferior ...

Haben Girma wears a lot of hats: she is a lawyer, a disability rights advocate, a 2013 White House Champions of Change honoree, a ballroom dancer and now the author of a new memoir. She does this as ...

Texting a friend when you're in the same room isn't that unusual. But interviewing someone over text when you're staring them in the eyes doesn't feel right. For Haben Girma, communicating with ...

One day, Haben Girma was summoned to the kitchen to help prepare bull meat. She was in Eritrea, her mother's home country, and her family never let her off the hook when it came to chores. She ...

SEATTLE — Haben Girma, the daughter of Eritrean refugees is often introduced as the first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School. She did indeed do that, but her story is much deeper. It ...