BY: USA GAMES CORRESPONDENT, MIKE GASTINEAU

Stacy Gillett is the Executive Director of The Arc of King County and as such oversees an organization dedicated to serving all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities across their lifespan. It’s the latest stop in Gillett’s 30-year career in disability rights work.

After college, Gillett started her career with the Disability Law Center of Alaska. For eight years, she traveled the tundra of the Last Frontier to various cities, towns, and villages doing special education work and making sure kids got into school and were properly taught.

She then spent 20 years with Seattle’s Dussault Law Group as an advocate where she worked with families who felt their children weren’t being treated properly at school. She also worked with an attorney who created new special education statutes in Washington state.