“My mom is picking up a different girl than she dropped off.” Calle arrived at LEAP in the summer of 2017, a 17 year old young woman, exhausted from a year of chemotherapy and recovering from the trauma of losing her sight to a brain tumor.   That first night, Calle was startled when her

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Before her time at LEAP, the only thing Nathalie knew about chickens was eating them for dinner!  So how did a young blind woman from the Bronx end up processing chickens for meat on a small farm in Vermont?   When Nathalie wasn’t exploring Bette Midler’s discography or working on her Fran Drescher impression, she

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