"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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Disability rights advocate Haben Girma (and her guide dog Milo) on stage at the Public Library Association 2020 Conference in Nashville February 28. Photo: Laura Kinser/Kinser Studios Author, speaker, ...

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.

A deaf-blind attorney who made Business Insider's 2013 list of the 20 most impressive Harvard Law students is now fighting for the rights of blind readers in a lawsuit against digital subscription ...

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 ...