A successful San Antonio woman is turning her life of silence into an inspiring testimony for others with disabilities seeking to enter the workforce.

Yesenia Ballesteros has been working in the e-commerce department with Goodwill San Antonio since 2016.

Just by looking at her, you wouldn’t know she lives her life with an invisible disability of deafness.

“I was born hearing, but at 6, I got meningitis and lost my hearing,” she said. “It took a few months for my mom to realize I was deaf because I was responding to vibrations and not sounds.”

With that being her new reality, Ballesteros said she learn to communicate quickly with the resources she was given.

“I was first in my school to get a cochlear implant, so I have some hearing,” she said. “It is interesting because the school I w

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