It was such a treat to meet Haben Girma at MSU’s 2025 Disability Summit on 10/3/25. I told her (via a bluetooth keyboard synced to her Brailler) that my grandfather, who was blind, would have been tickled by her sharp humor.
Image description: Masked Caitlin holds up a freshly signed copy of Haben Girma’s book (Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law), and Haben faces the camera and flashes the sign for “I love you.”
Later the same day, I presented data from my dissertation in a webinar: University world language instructors’ readiness for disability inclusion. Here are the slides!
Caitlin Cornell 