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Guest im focused on using my skills to advance people with disabilities. Host why did you choose the type of law . Guest i was born deaf blind and when we ask for accommodations, a lot of society refuses that ability to get a better education and go and get a job. The law is to create change and i wanted to create change for people with disabilities. My own story inspired me to become an attorney. Host here is her book the deaf blind woman who conquered harvard law. First deaf blind person to graduate from harvard, is that correct, from Harvard Law School . Guest host what was that experience ...

I think that alex and myself and a number of other people here are really primarily concerned about how were being informed. And i my personal opinion about pg es efforts to get information out is i havent known them to be particularly robust and so im wondering who is monitoring pg es approach to this . Is that your responsibility . How do we make sure theyre going to accomplish what they claim theyre going to accomplish in a comprehensive way . Our responsibility and ill speak for the larger Emergency Management Community Working with all of our partners. Working with nicole. So when the Cal...

Most of the world is designed for people who can see and hear and when we ask for accommodation , for example in braille instead of print, that limits our ability to get aneducation, to go and get a job. Ive experienced a lot of those barriers and i realized the law allows us to create change and i wanted to create change so my own personal story is, my struggle inspired me to become an attorney. Here is her book haben, the death blind woman who conquered harvard law, first deaf blind person to graduate from harvard law school, is that right . Thats right what was that experience like . We had...

She is also a lawyer. Ms. Girma, what kind of law do you practice . Guest would you call me haben . Host haben, yes, maam. Guest and the kind of law i do is disability rights. Im focused on using my skills to advance opportunities for people with disabilities. Host why did you choose that type of law . Guest i was born deafblind. Most of our world is designed for people who can see and hear, and when we ask for accommodations for example, getting materials in braille instead of print a lot of society refuses, putting up barriers. And that limits our ability to get an education, to go and get a...

Informed and something that everyone in the city supports, we couldnt implement it without changing state law either. Council member williams thank you. Long winded answer, but were with you. Council member williams just to clarify if i may, the city is engaged with California Public Utilities Commission on this, right . Yeah. I mean, its kind of a loaded plate there. Im not privy to those conversations, but i would say that the outcomes we have not had any different outcomes. Cochair senhaux i dont have a question, but a quick comment because the rules apply to me, too. I appreciate with rega...