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Peter Slatin
His life and work .
Peter is the Founder and President of Slatin Group LLC in the United States , which provides education and training to the hospitality and tourism industry on service to consumers with disabilities .
Peter grew up in Buffalo , NY , attended college at SUNY New Paltz and in his senior year moved to New York City for an independent study arts program through Empire State College , graduating in 1976 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting . He obtained a similar Masters degree from Hunter College in 1980 .
He had a series of terrible part-time jobs after grad school but found a path as a proofreader at a printing house in Brooklyn . As a blind person , he could not drive a cab or wait tables and needed another way to earn a living while painting . He was still able to see enough to read , though , and loved to write . He found a job proofreading at Time magazine and then Forbes , which is where he wrote and published his first article after ten years as a proofreader and copy editor .