I’m a Harvard graduate, world traveler, and global speaker who happens to be totally blind. I’ve spent my life proving that barriers are just starting points, and now I help organizations and students do the same.
They said I wouldn’t make it
I was born at 25 weeks gestation. Doctors in Uruguay saved my life, but the oxygen that kept me alive took my sight.
My parents were told that my life would be full of difficulties. Experts defined my limits before I took my first step.
They were right about the blindness. They were wrong about everything else.
By 17, I was proving them wrong
When the pandemic brought the world to a standstill, I went online. At 17, I started pitching stories to international media outlets. No one knew me. Soon my work appeared in HuffPost, Business Insider, and Foreign Policy. All of this happened from my bedroom in Uruguay.
That tenacity earned me a full scholarship to Harvard University.
From Harvard Yard to the United Nations
At Harvard, I studied government and human rights, and I realized that policies are often written by people who have never experienced the problems they are trying to solve.
I took that perspective to the United Nations, the World Urban Forum, and stages across three continents, to go beyond “awareness” and start building real infrastructure for inclusion.
I don’t want a seat at the table. I want to redesign the room.
The people who believed first
My parents didn’t listen to the experts who said I couldn’t. They listened to me. When I wanted to navigate my neighborhood alone they taught me how. When I wanted to write for international publications at 17, they didn’t tell me to “be realistic”—they asked what I needed.
They saw possibility instead of limitation. Now I work with organizations that want to do the same for their teams and students.
30 countries, one mission
I just graduated from Harvard. Now I’m on a mission to visit 30 countries with my guide dog, a black Labrador named Indio, before he retires.
We’ve already been to 17 countries. We changed the rules in Egypt, becoming the first guide dog team to work legally in the country.
I’m traveling to push the boundaries of what’s possible with a guide dog, to collect stories from blind people worldwide, to spotlight what’s working in accessibility—and change what isn’t.
People are used to saying “blind people with guide dogs can’t do this.” I’m proving them wrong, one border at a time.
Because when you expand what’s possible for one person, you expand it for everyone.
From boardrooms to classrooms
I speak to corporations about what I’ve learned navigating a world that wasn’t built for me: how to turn rejection into fuel, how to adapt when the playbook doesn’t apply to you, and how to build credibility when no one expects you to succeed.
My story resonates with teams facing disruption, launching in new markets, or tackling problems that require thinking beyond the obvious. I bring insights about resilience, strategic adaptation, and rewriting rules that don’t work.
I talk to students about turning their biggest obstacles into their greatest strengths—showing them that the things that make them different are exactly what will make them unstoppable.
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