Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law, Haben Girma (Twelve, 2019).
his memoir, by a White House Champion of Change and recipient of the Helen Keller Achievement Award, begins with the terrifying moment when the then-7-year-old Girma’s father is arrested by Ethiopian soldiers, leaving her alone on a plane to London, and culminates in her time at Harvard Law School, where Girma is also the first-ever
