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Haben Girma, Harvard Law School's first deaf-blind graduate, is fighting to make education easily available for deaf-blind people all over the world, according to BBC News.

Born in California to a refugee from the African country, Eritrea, in the early 1980s, Girma has now become is a successful attorney fighting for civil rights of disabled people, reported the Diplomat News Network.

She attended Lewis & Clark College, and graduated magna cum laude in 2010, and later matriculated to Harvard Law School, earning her J.D. two years ago.

According to her speech, she explains that she is proof of the fact that if you believe that you can achieve a goal, then you will.

Being a disabled in Eritrea would not have given her access to education, noted India.com. As there were no schools for her, she would not have graduated there. Her older brother, also born deaf-blind, did not have her privilege.

Earlier this year, she had an important celebration with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden---the 25th Anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities, at the White House.

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