Milagros Costabel
From Uruguay to the Ivy League, blind.
Keynotes. Student programs. Guide-dog access consulting.
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They said a blind girl from Uruguay couldn’t—
Learn English. Study abroad. Get into Harvard. Work as a journalist. Travel the world with a guide dog.
I did all of it. Even though the barriers were real, I learned how to build around them. Now I teach organizations and students to do the same.
30 countries. One guide dog.
Meet Indio. He is the reason I can move through the world the way I do. He has given me a freedom I never had before, but he won’t be working forever.
Before he retires, I want to take him to 30 countries. We’ve already been to 17. We became the first guide dog team to work legally in Egypt.
I know that every hotel policy we change, every employee we train, every door we open remains open for the teams that will come after us.
I work with tourism offices, hotels, and disability organizations to make this shift possible. Are you in?
I know what it takes to create something when the playbook doesn’t exist.
If you’re facing a challenge that feels impossible, if your team needs to think differently, if your students need to hear that their differences are their edge, if your destination wants to actually welcome guide dog teams: I’d love to hear what you’re working on.