Marci's Story

Marci Tatham is a 26 year old Type 1 diabetic living in Irvine, California. Marci is a global ambassador for Beyond type 1 , and will be running the New York Marathon in November.

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Jillian's story

Jillian Rippolone has been Type 1 diabetic for 20 years and is from Long Island, New York but lives in Michigan, Jillian also runs the Facebook page Type 1 titans and instagram page @t1dchick which has over 14,000 followers, and she also sells trendy diabetic alert bracelets in which she donates apart of the sales to JDRF

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Abigail's story

Abigail Bensman has been Type 1 diabetic for two and a half years and runs the website www.slowdownsugar.com and Instagram page @slowdownsugar_ where she focuses on the positive side of diabetes rather than the negative. 

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Oren's Story

Oren Liebermann is a CNN correspondent based in Jerusalem, who just 3 months after his diagnosis in 2014, hiked the Great wall of China. Oren is also the author of the book The Insulin Express: One Backpack, Five Continents, and the Diabetes Diagnosis That Changed Everything. about his diagnosis and perspective to learn about his book go to the Interesting stuff for T1D's tab.

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Matt's Story

Matt Tarro with his diabetic alert dog Forest has had T1D for 14 years and is currently on the Beyond Type 1 Global Ambassador's council. Matt also runs the website www.MatthewTarro.com where he shares video and photography he creates.  He currently works for Snapchat but hopes to pursue a life of education and empowerment focused on Type 1 Diabetics, mainly our youth. 

 

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Mallory's Story

Mallory Zorman is a former competitive speed skater from Canada who competed nationally and internationally, and is currently finishing up a bachelors of science in biology, with her sights set on medical school and is also now involved with Medtronic consulting both adults and children on insulin pumps, 

 

 

 

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Jordy's Story

Jordy Kuiper is aDivision I basketball player who plays for the University of North Carolina Greensborod was part of the Southern Conference regular season championship team last year.. He is from the Netherlands and has been T1D since he was nine years old.

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Natalie's story

Natalie Bartos was diagnosed in 2008 with T1D. She currently is a 200/400msprinter at Carson- Newman University in Jefferson City, Tennessee, and she hopes to be a certified diabetic educator one day.

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Lianna's Story

Lianna Greene is a college student who was diagnosed with T1D at age 7 and will graduate in two years with a bachelors of science innursingand minors in health and women and gender studies. She hopes to work in pediatric cardiology or as a sexual assault nurse.

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Chris's Story

Chris Hayre was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes right before his 28th birthday. Chris was in charge of corporate sponsorship for the 2008-2009 NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers and actually has a ring to prove it! Chris Recently got his master's degree from Northwestern University as a McCormick Scholar, and hopes to be an NFL reporter in 2017.

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Ruud's Story

Ruud Cremers (in white) is a professional cyclist for Team Novo Nordisk Ruud overcame a horrific cycling accidentto continue to do continue to follow his his dream of being a professional cyclist.

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Gary's Story

Gary Forbes is a professional basketball player who currently plays for the Boca Juniors in the Liga Nacional de Básquet who was diagnosed at the age of 19 while playing college basketball at the University of Virginia. Gary has played all over the worldincluding a stint in the NBA with the Denver Nuggets where he played NBA all stars and olympians such as Carmelo Anthony and Demar Derozan. Gary also played on the Panamanian national team in the 2007 FIBA Americas championship.

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