Welcome to Disability Awesome. Each week, this post will feature a person or persons with mental and / or physical disabilities who are doing awesome things! As someone with an disability, I love it when others when disabilities do great things!

You don’t earn the title of “custodian of the year” at an airport that’s won awards for having the cleanest restrooms, by calling out of work often. And in 11 years, Sophie Lee hasn’t missed a single day of work. “No work would be boring. Being here is actually pretty fun. Learning things is fun,” Lee told WMAR-2 News. Sophie is one of nearly 300 people employed at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport through a partnership with Chimes, a Baltimore-based nonprofit that provides jobs to people with disabilities.

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