Seattle nonprofit helping people with intellectual, developmental disabilities prepare for mainstream life

Summit Community Center helps people continue to grow and advance after high school.

SEATTLE — As she chops carrots in a cooking class, Colleen McMurry sees the bigger picture.

She is putting together the ingredients for a fulfilling life.

“I like anything with cooking,” McMurry said. “It’s an important thing to know how to do.”

McMurry dreams of one day working in an Italian restaurant. She’s doing all she can to make that dream a reality regardless of her Down Syndrome diagnosis.

“The disability of Down Syndrome doesn’t define me as a person,” McMurry said. “It doesn’t keep me from

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