Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Haben Girma, the first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, advocates for people to celebrate her community and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Haben Girma is an author, lawyer, speaker and disability rights advocate who's been honored by world leaders including Justin ...

New York, Sept. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lighthouse Guild announced today that the noted human rights lawyer and disability justice advocate Haben Girma is the first recipient of The Dr. Alan R.

With July being Disability Pride Month, there is a crucial factor that is important to spotlight as many organizations continue to strive toward achieving their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) ...

Author, speaker, and disability rights advocate Haben Girma is the first deaf-blind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, and the path to get there wasn’t easy. “I had to come up with ...

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 ...

HABEN GIRMA: Disabled people are talented. Disabled people deserve dignity and respect. I know this, you know this, but a lot of our policies and designs have not been inclusive of disabled people.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In ordinary times, people with disabilities are regularly confronted with ableism, or in the words of Disability Rights Lawyer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...