Peckham Speaker Series: Mick Ebeling

Peckham Inc., a nonprofit vocational rehabilitation organization that provides paid job training for people with disabilities and other barriers to employment, will host a lecture by Not Impossible Labs founder Mick Ebeling 10:30 a.m. Friday (April 26) at its headquarters on Capital City Boulevard. The lecture will also be livestreamed.

Not Impossible is a social innovation lab that aims to prove nothing is impossible. Through collaborations with a team of engineers, idea generators and storytellers, Ebeling’s problem-solving approach “has restored a paraplegic street artist’s ability to draw, helped experts to craft 3D-printed arms for Sudanese amputees, given a ‘voice’ to an ALS patient who hadn’t spoken in 15 years and made possible the development of wearables that allow deaf and hearing people alike to feel music haptically in a ‘surround body’ experience,” according to a press release. Ebeling’s work has earned him a Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award and a spot on Fortune Magazine’s list of the world’s 50 greatest leaders.

Peckham’s biannual Speaker Series, supported by the Peckham Community Partnership Foundation, brings national speakers, authors, disability rights advocates and individuals who have overcome personal challenges to speak in Lansing. The series aims to raise awareness about disabilities and other world issues while celebrating ability and diversity. 

The lecture is free and open to the public, with an interactive Q&A session to follow. To register, visit peckham.org/about-us/media-center/events.