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By Iacopo Luzi <\/strong><\/p>\n

Sandy Murillo is a 28-year old woman who was born with glaucoma and lost her vision when she was just 2 years old. <\/p>\n

Since she was a teenager, she has dreamed of working in the media, so she studied journalism at the University of Illinois in Champaign.<\/p>\n

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Today she works at the Chicago Lighthouse for people who are blind or visually impaired, a non-profit agency in the West Side of Chicago founded in 1906. <\/p>\n

For more than 100 years, the Chicago Lighthouse has helped people improve their lives. After all, the Chicago Lighthouse\u2019s motto is, \u201cThere is still hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

The organisation\u2019s mission is made easier thanks to the contribution of Murillo, who has a blog, started in March 2015, called \u201cSandy\u2019s View.\u201d She writes about the challenges blind people face everyday, and she gives advices to her readers. <\/p>\n

Sandy Murillo records at a radio studio. (Iacopo Luzi\/MEDILL) <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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