THE BOSS: Not Just ‘That Blind Person’
As told to Patricia R. Olsen © The New York Times — Karen Petrou, managing partner of Federal Financial Analytics, age 56; name of her Seeing Eye Dog: Ori, “my light” in Hebrew; number of papers she reads daily: five; favorite tech tool: JAWS, her screen-reading software — In high school I took the train from my home in Briarcliff Manor, north of New York, into Manhattan to take dance lessons with Syvilla Fort in a studio over a bar on 44th Street. I danced with the Alvin Ailey company for a while but never made the top group. I also worked at Philipsburg Manor, a restored Colonial house in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. Nothing prepares you for public speaking like appearing in a colonial style dress and mobcap in front of 50 or 60 sixth graders staring you down…. At 18, I learned that I had a variety of retinitis pigmentosa… READ STORY