Haben featured on NPR
She Owes Her Activism To A Brave Mom, The ADA And Chocolate Cake
To Haben Girma’s grandmother, back in East Africa, it “seemed like magic.” Her granddaughter, born deaf and blind, is a graduate of Harvard Law School and works as a civil rights attorney.
It’s easy to understand why the grandmother feels that […]
White House Blog: My ADA Story: A Deafblind Lawyer Dismantling Digital Barriers
My ADA Story: A Deafblind Lawyer Dismantling Digital Barriers
The President shared a moving story of how, in the years before Congress passed the ADA, his father-in-law — who had multiple sclerosis — would sometimes hold himself back because he didn’t want his disability to inconvenience others. With that story, President Obama reminded […]