“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
Continue reading »Listen to the podcast lead by 2018 LEAP Summer Interns Ashleigh & Kate, as fellow LEAP students share stories about “what amazes them”. This podcast is one in a series of episodes made entirely by blind or visually impaired students taking part in the LEAP program of ReSOURCE. Financial support was provided by the Detla
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