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Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People

Haben Girma: Lawyer, Activist, and Advocate for Equal Opportunities for People with Disabilities

Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People

Guy Kawasaki

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4.6667 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Meet Haben Girma, the disability rights attorney, who became the first deafblind woman to graduate from Harvard Law School in 2013. Haben has made it her mission to advocate for equal opportunities for people with disabilities. Inspiring episode of Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People podcast! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

In my years of entrepreneurship, I've seen countless startups. And here's the truth.

0:07.3

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0:14.0

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0:24.1

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0:32.9

are trusting Brex to help them win. Go to brex.com slash grow to learn more.

0:48.8

I'm Guy Kawasaki and this is remarkable people.

0:53.1

Today's remarkable guest is Haben Germa.

0:56.6

Haben was born in Oakland, California, to an immigrant Eritrean family.

1:01.0

In her early childhood, she began to lose her eyesight and hearing.

1:05.1

She graduated from Skyline High School in Oakland and went on to graduate

1:09.0

Magna Cum Laude from Lewisis and clark after college she obtained

1:13.3

a law degree from Harvard law school she is the first deaf blind person to achieve this distinction

1:19.7

after law school she joined an organization called disability rights advocates she was part of the team that

1:25.8

filed a lawsuit against scricribd because its digital

1:28.8

reading system did not accommodate blind people. President Obama named her to the White House

1:34.2

Champions of Change and she received the Helen Keller Achievement Award from the American Federation

1:39.7

for the Blind. She was on the Forbes 30 under 30 list and a speaker for the time 100 talks.

1:46.8

Compared to other episodes of remarkable people, there's a longer delay between the end of my

1:51.7

question and the guest's answer. That's because what I said was typed in by a transcriber

1:56.9

and converted for Hobbin to read on a braille keyboard. I did not delete the delay and the sound of typing

2:02.6

so that you could experience how our interview actually took place.

2:06.6

This episode of Remarkable People is brought you by Remarkable, the Paper Tablet Company.

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