![]() ![]() Haben Girma and her seeing eye dog, Mylo. Blind readers and writers wanted to be able to access the content on its subscription service, so the Federation and lawyers like Girma reached out several times asking them to work together on a fix. The case was filed on behalf of the National Federation of the Blind against the online document service Scribd. She also got her first taste of writing legal arguments, including for one case that she ultimately worked on after she graduated. She brought to Harvard her years of skills from navigating high school and college, both in terms of the physical grounds and in her comfort level approaching professors to explain the accommodations she needed. ![]() ![]() Girma explained she hadn’t planned to apply to Harvard Law, which she thought would be “snobbish,” but an advisor warned her that “a lot of non-disabled law graduates are struggling to get a job” so she should apply to top schools. ![]()
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