the visually impaired. This was a further development of the work the educator had begun nearly two decades earlier with the first rehabilitation center for the blind created by her foundation. Dorina was considered by Revista Época to be one of the 100 most influential Brazilians of the year 2009. Personal life She married lawyer Edward Hubert Alexander Nowill (1923-2013), the son of an English Protestant pastor, whom she met in the United States while studying at Columbia University as a scholarship scholar for education and rehabilitation of blind people. Dorina Nowill died at the age of 91, victim of a cardiac arrest. She was hospitalized about 15 days ago at Santa Isabel Hospital, in the west zone of São Paulo, to treat an infection. The funeral took place in the headquarters of the foundation that takes her name. Nowill left five children and twelve grandchildren. References External links Fundação Dorina Nowill website (in Portuguese) 1919 births 2010 deaths Brazilian educators Brazilian philanthropists Blind educators 20th-century philanthropists Brazilian women philanthropists 20th-century women philanthropists