How a visually impaired girl from Guyana learned to read at 13 and earned a PhD at 36 in US
Alanka Babb is not an ordinary woman. She was born with macular dystrophy, a rare eye condition that causes progressive vision loss and cannot be cured or corrected. She grew up in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Guyana, where education was not a priority and disability support was nonexistent. She struggled to see the…