[Music]
ah
do not
ah
[Applause]
all absolutely we all had a
dream that we could not meet
either due to lack of resources or because
our physical abilities or
sensory not allowed, I invite you
to think for a moment about that dream
let’s call it frustrated
I for example wanted to be a stewardess
but nobody would imagine a
Blind stewardess or yes
I don `t believe
my condition as blind people took me
to look for other alternatives of life
blind
that word that at the beginning did not understand
that word that I found so
painful when my classmates my
they shouted in the schoolyard and I
I’m about to cry and with desperation I
they touched their eyes and shouted no no I
I’m not blind I can see
little by little and with the support of my family
I understood what was happening to me and it is
why today I use form
natural the word blind and others like
see or look
so much naturalness that for example
sometimes I’m reading or writing something
and forgot to turn on the light because
as I do not see it
and it came to my dad or my sister and it tells me
there he’s going to scrub his eyes
the visual disability has not limited my
curiosity to know the world
in childhood that curiosity led me to
think for example that the musicians and
singers were in the radio and
the actors on the TV I stuck to
the ear made the speaker the speaker or
the screen
to see if I placed them in an attempt to
get them out of there, end up with a TV
and two recorders that my parents had
the kindness of not charging me hopefully I do not
agree now
also since I was little I like to talk
by phone as I’m sure many
of you happened without suspecting that in
the future would end up working
precisely in the area of technology and
communications
as has been the case with many people
blind since I was little I was woken up
interest in music composed songs
he sang all day and made music with
everything I had in front when I say
all that absolutely the whole table the
pottery toys for that reason at 8 years
my parents decided to enroll me in the
Conservatory of the national university
conservatory
the single word at that age scared me
a lot and the place even more I remember that
the rooms were cold
had a smell like construction
old and the teachers were very
strict classes had almost all
days and my mother always accompanied me
he even learned to read music for
dictate me the scores and it’s a
musical criticism that you neither
imagine
she may not have heard what
I’m playing but always always knows
when I’m wrong
the classes in the conservatory at the time
with the school they were a career of the
home to college school the
conservatory of the conservatory to the
home and arriving at night doing homework
I confess that sometimes I hated the
conservatory because practically not
I had social life but mostly because
I did not have time for one of the things
who most enjoyed playing ponchados
hidden and even football with my cousins
I’m sure everyone played with the
cousins
but that discipline that seemed so
strict at the beginning paid off
Remember that beautiful feeling when
they received their first salary
that same thing I experienced in my degree of
bachelor at age 18 I had my first
touch payment
but also at that age live a moment
very difficult frustrating
imagine an 18 year old
receiving this news from the ophthalmologist
when my mother told me not to
there was nothing to do and that I never
I could see
then in an even more difficult process and
was getting used to the cane
the first cane that I had was brought to me
of the USA along with a card game
you know what it says when I received it I took the
card game the cane does not throw a
side what I’m going to come out with that stick in
the street what a shame they were
friendships
but then that stick would allow me to be
more independent of the university the
that have already passed are going through that
they will know that when you get to the
university wants so to speak
eat the world and I was not the
exception soon I started to move
I used to go to the rumba or to concerts and
Obviously I started to be interested in
boys
I chose as a career philology and languages
I’ve always liked the sound of other
languages even if they did not understand what
they said
and since I was little I had learned
songs in English is already depleted my
movies with three or four words
I knew
it was also in the university era
where the metal came into my life
[Music]
that young woman they see there playing the keyboard
it’s all wig was me
at the beginning it was difficult for my family
especially for my mother but then I
accompanied the touches without problem
playing in metal groups represented a
great challenge not only in the musical but
because I entered a world
traditionally dominated by men
I remember in a special way a touch on
málaga santander in which one of the
assistants told me that energy take care
that mane
he was a musician more like any other
disability there simply did not exist
there was the disability
going back to the subject of my career
university almost at the end and more for
I need to say it for pleasure
I started using technology up
that moment had depended on me
family and my friends to read and
write documents but the semesters
they got complicated and people are not
I had time
they had talked to me about something called jobs
that was a screen reader that
supposedly allowed the
blind people use a computer
but I said jesus pure story without seeing
the screen that is impossible
however I started using the blissful
technology and that voice of them that at
initially seemed monotonous canzona
there would eventually become in
forward in my greatest ally
Hi, I’m 28.
I use the computer and the cell phone as
any of you I have mail
electronic social networks as
can see there
I read and wrote documents and even play
also thanks to technology
and I achieved my greatest academic feat up
this moment
have been the first person with
disability in colombia in winning the
fulbright scholarship
I do not exaggerate when I say that the trip of
the us changed my life
For the first time I left the country and also
I did it alone
you can imagine how difficult that was
farewell at the airport
my parents and sisters watched their
daughter and younger sister with disabilities
a country that is miles from
distance
already on the plane everything was joy and
expectations
trip in first class at 10 o’clock
morning
I felt like an expert traveler
and even ordered a cocktail
10am
but the last ten fifteen minutes of
flight when the plane started its
landing maneuvers
I begin to feel with a void in the
stomach
not because of hunger
but because I got a terrible scare
I was aware that nobody was going to
be waiting at that airport
imagine for a few seconds in a country
who do not know if the possibility of seeing
what happens around him
and having to trust strangers that
they also speak a language other than
hey believe me that if one knows the language
there are times when one does not understand
Pope nor what they are saying
that happen
my final style was the university of the
florida in gainesville
there he studied the master’s degree in communication
I had my own apartment I made great
friends mostly Latinos we were like
little brothers we were that extended family
rumbia we go and we rely on everything
He also attends events where I met
Fellows fulbright from all over the
world and it was something very enriching something
that I would recommend to any of
you have a disability or not
because many prejudices towards
people from other countries
not everything was rosy I had moments
very hard of which I wanted to get back
throw in the towel because I did not feel
able those who have been away for some
time or for years they will know what
means to miss even the most things
the country’s simple food
conversations in the corner the heat of
people one day was so desperate
I called a friend and I told her
I found out tomorrow what to do
but here I do not follow that is the version
decent of what I read
besides the academic requirement was so much
I spent days without seeing my friends and
without talking to my family and my boyfriend
but I also saw very beautiful moments
celebrate the day of thanksgiving
being the head musician with my
friends
win a talent contest and participate
in a version of the carnival of
Barranquilla with a group of Colombians
there was the music that partner
inseparable
two years later it concludes successfully
my expertise and I went for a walk in the south
from florida first with wine and then
with my family we met the parks of
disney and universal
it was time to return to Colombia and
Believe it or not, it was also very
difficult to leave that apartment that had
been my home for two years was hard
since I was in the USA they came
following him the mintic track
and I knew I had some very projects
interesting for the population with
disability for what is called a license
country and another called cinema for all
and I started repeating myself constantly
I want to work there
only months later and now part of the
tics team and disability of the
appropriation address
I the one who years ago had said that no
it was possible for a blind person
use a computer now led
convert a pioneering project at the
world that would change the lives of many
people who are blind or have low vision
allowing them free access to
the technologies
finally many people would have the
same opportunities that I had had
in another project I was commissioned
management of social networks and it made me
It’s very funny to think that users
another side they had no idea that the
person who published content to
daily and that answered their concerns
I did not see the screen
You can also the opportunity to
represent mintic in america
accessible the accessibility event more
important for the region of the
americans I met brazil and I tried
learn some Portuguese for
interact with people in a way
nearest at least I learned greetings
nowadays I continue working for the
inclusion I am part of the network of
women with visual disabilities who
groups of women of Bogota of different
departments of the country
and I have even ventured into the radio
as an announcer and director but
quiet that no longer damage the radios
trying to get the singers out so
they are not there
remember that frustrated dream that they
speak the beginning
Well, I tell you, three years ago
thanks to a photographic exhibition that
did my boyfriend can not meet I went
stewardess for a few hours and can not imagine
how I enjoyed it
[Applause]
This is the message I want to leave you
Do not let the fact of being fat
short bald a bad position
economic the color of your skin or have
a disability defines who they are
you or how far you can get
I am more than eyes that do not see I am
a person like you with flaws and
virtues that try every day to make
this world a better place a more place
inclusive for all thank you very much
[Applause]
ah
do not
ah
[Applause]
all absolutely we all had a
dream that we could not meet
either due to lack of resources or because
our physical abilities or
sensory not allowed, I invite you
to think for a moment about that dream
let’s call it frustrated
I for example wanted to be a stewardess
but nobody would imagine a
Blind stewardess or yes
I don `t believe
my condition as blind people took me
to look for other alternatives of life
blind
that word that at the beginning did not understand
that word that I found so
painful when my classmates my
they shouted in the schoolyard and I
I’m about to cry and with desperation I
they touched their eyes and shouted no no I
I’m not blind I can see
little by little and with the support of my family
I understood what was happening to me and it is
why today I use form
natural the word blind and others like
see or look
so much naturalness that for example
sometimes I’m reading or writing something
and forgot to turn on the light because
as I do not see it
and it came to my dad or my sister and it tells me
there he’s going to scrub his eyes
the visual disability has not limited my
curiosity to know the world
in childhood that curiosity led me to
think for example that the musicians and
singers were in the radio and
the actors on the TV I stuck to
the ear made the speaker the speaker or
the screen
to see if I placed them in an attempt to
get them out of there, end up with a TV
and two recorders that my parents had
the kindness of not charging me hopefully I do not
agree now
also since I was little I like to talk
by phone as I’m sure many
of you happened without suspecting that in
the future would end up working
precisely in the area of technology and
communications
as has been the case with many people
blind since I was little I was woken up
interest in music composed songs
he sang all day and made music with
everything I had in front when I say
all that absolutely the whole table the
pottery toys for that reason at 8 years
my parents decided to enroll me in the
Conservatory of the national university
conservatory
the single word at that age scared me
a lot and the place even more I remember that
the rooms were cold
had a smell like construction
old and the teachers were very
strict classes had almost all
days and my mother always accompanied me
he even learned to read music for
dictate me the scores and it’s a
musical criticism that you neither
imagine
she may not have heard what
I’m playing but always always knows
when I’m wrong
the classes in the conservatory at the time
with the school they were a career of the
home to college school the
conservatory of the conservatory to the
home and arriving at night doing homework
I confess that sometimes I hated the
conservatory because practically not
I had social life but mostly because
I did not have time for one of the things
who most enjoyed playing ponchados
hidden and even football with my cousins
I’m sure everyone played with the
cousins
but that discipline that seemed so
strict at the beginning paid off
Remember that beautiful feeling when
they received their first salary
that same thing I experienced in my degree of
bachelor at age 18 I had my first
touch payment
but also at that age live a moment
very difficult frustrating
imagine an 18 year old
receiving this news from the ophthalmologist
when my mother told me not to
there was nothing to do and that I never
I could see
then in an even more difficult process and
was getting used to the cane
the first cane that I had was brought to me
of the USA along with a card game
you know what it says when I received it I took the
card game the cane does not throw a
side what I’m going to come out with that stick in
the street what a shame they were
friendships
but then that stick would allow me to be
more independent of the university the
that have already passed are going through that
they will know that when you get to the
university wants so to speak
eat the world and I was not the
exception soon I started to move
I used to go to the rumba or to concerts and
Obviously I started to be interested in
boys
I chose as a career philology and languages
I’ve always liked the sound of other
languages even if they did not understand what
they said
and since I was little I had learned
songs in English is already depleted my
movies with three or four words
I knew
it was also in the university era
where the metal came into my life
[Music]
that young woman they see there playing the keyboard
it’s all wig was me
at the beginning it was difficult for my family
especially for my mother but then I
accompanied the touches without problem
playing in metal groups represented a
great challenge not only in the musical but
because I entered a world
traditionally dominated by men
I remember in a special way a touch on
málaga santander in which one of the
assistants told me that energy take care
that mane
he was a musician more like any other
disability there simply did not exist
there was the disability
going back to the subject of my career
university almost at the end and more for
I need to say it for pleasure
I started using technology up
that moment had depended on me
family and my friends to read and
write documents but the semesters
they got complicated and people are not
I had time
they had talked to me about something called jobs
that was a screen reader that
supposedly allowed the
blind people use a computer
but I said jesus pure story without seeing
the screen that is impossible
however I started using the blissful
technology and that voice of them that at
initially seemed monotonous canzona
there would eventually become in
forward in my greatest ally
Hi, I’m 28.
I use the computer and the cell phone as
any of you I have mail
electronic social networks as
can see there
I read and wrote documents and even play
also thanks to technology
and I achieved my greatest academic feat up
this moment
have been the first person with
disability in colombia in winning the
fulbright scholarship
I do not exaggerate when I say that the trip of
the us changed my life
For the first time I left the country and also
I did it alone
you can imagine how difficult that was
farewell at the airport
my parents and sisters watched their
daughter and younger sister with disabilities
a country that is miles from
distance
already on the plane everything was joy and
expectations
trip in first class at 10 o’clock
morning
I felt like an expert traveler
and even ordered a cocktail
10am
but the last ten fifteen minutes of
flight when the plane started its
landing maneuvers
I begin to feel with a void in the
stomach
not because of hunger
but because I got a terrible scare
I was aware that nobody was going to
be waiting at that airport
imagine for a few seconds in a country
who do not know if the possibility of seeing
what happens around him
and having to trust strangers that
they also speak a language other than
hey believe me that if one knows the language
there are times when one does not understand
Pope nor what they are saying
that happen
my final style was the university of the
florida in gainesville
there he studied the master’s degree in communication
I had my own apartment I made great
friends mostly Latinos we were like
little brothers we were that extended family
rumbia we go and we rely on everything
He also attends events where I met
Fellows fulbright from all over the
world and it was something very enriching something
that I would recommend to any of
you have a disability or not
because many prejudices towards
people from other countries
not everything was rosy I had moments
very hard of which I wanted to get back
throw in the towel because I did not feel
able those who have been away for some
time or for years they will know what
means to miss even the most things
the country’s simple food
conversations in the corner the heat of
people one day was so desperate
I called a friend and I told her
I found out tomorrow what to do
but here I do not follow that is the version
decent of what I read
besides the academic requirement was so much
I spent days without seeing my friends and
without talking to my family and my boyfriend
but I also saw very beautiful moments
celebrate the day of thanksgiving
being the head musician with my
friends
win a talent contest and participate
in a version of the carnival of
Barranquilla with a group of Colombians
there was the music that partner
inseparable
two years later it concludes successfully
my expertise and I went for a walk in the south
from florida first with wine and then
with my family we met the parks of
disney and universal
it was time to return to Colombia and
Believe it or not, it was also very
difficult to leave that apartment that had
been my home for two years was hard
since I was in the USA they came
following him the mintic track
and I knew I had some very projects
interesting for the population with
disability for what is called a license
country and another called cinema for all
and I started repeating myself constantly
I want to work there
only months later and now part of the
tics team and disability of the
appropriation address
I the one who years ago had said that no
it was possible for a blind person
use a computer now led
convert a pioneering project at the
world that would change the lives of many
people who are blind or have low vision
allowing them free access to
the technologies
finally many people would have the
same opportunities that I had had
in another project I was commissioned
management of social networks and it made me
It’s very funny to think that users
another side they had no idea that the
person who published content to
daily and that answered their concerns
I did not see the screen
You can also the opportunity to
represent mintic in america
accessible the accessibility event more
important for the region of the
americans I met brazil and I tried
learn some Portuguese for
interact with people in a way
nearest at least I learned greetings
nowadays I continue working for the
inclusion I am part of the network of
women with visual disabilities who
groups of women of Bogota of different
departments of the country
and I have even ventured into the radio
as an announcer and director but
quiet that no longer damage the radios
trying to get the singers out so
they are not there
remember that frustrated dream that they
speak the beginning
Well, I tell you, three years ago
thanks to a photographic exhibition that
did my boyfriend can not meet I went
stewardess for a few hours and can not imagine
how I enjoyed it
[Applause]
This is the message I want to leave you
Do not let the fact of being fat
short bald a bad position
economic the color of your skin or have
a disability defines who they are
you or how far you can get
I am more than eyes that do not see I am
a person like you with flaws and
virtues that try every day to make
this world a better place a more place
inclusive for all thank you very much
[Applause]
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