The California Choral Directors Association (CCDA) has awarded UC Davis alumna Susanna Peeples with a 2021 Early Career Choral Conductor award. The award was given at this year’s CASMEC conference (virtually, of course). Peeples graduated from UC Davis in 2009 and earned her master of music degree (in music education) from the University of the Pacific. She teaches choir, piano, and guitar, at Granite Bay High School, where she was named that school’s Teacher of the Year by her peers in 2020.