Celebrate Life: Stirling Peebles

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From Gary De Carolis:

Five words: Determined, Hard worker, Funny, Researcher, Successful

Stirling Peebles, was a former Think College Vermont student. Stirling was hired at The Center on Disability and Community Inclusion as the Think College Vermont Dissemination Assistant in 2014. In the same year, she became an official member of the National Association of People Supporting Employment First (APSE). In 2015, she also became a board member of the Vermont APSE chapter as well. Stirling also works for Green Mountain Self-Advocates. Stirling completed the Human Resource Management Certificate Program at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont. She had a 4.0 GPA at Champlain College. Stirling has been recognized by the Vermont Business Magazine as a 2016 Rising Star.

Stirling also serves on the Governor's Committee on the Employment of People with Disabilities. In 2019-2020 she was a Self-Advocate Fellow in the University of Vermont Leadership Education and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) program. In 2019, the Association of People Supporting Employment First (APSE) awarded Stirling the APSE Lois Curtis Award. This award recognizes an individual’s personal achievement in advocating for inclusive, individualized, community-based employment and/or independent living.

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