Lauren Bongiorno is a Diabetic Health Coach, Health + Wellness Speaker, and Yoga Instructor who has had Type 1 diabetes for 16 years.
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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 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 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 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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Collin Drake is professional cyclist who was diagnosed with T1D at age 11.
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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 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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Tim Covel is a lacrosse player and a 2 time captain for Connecicut college he was diagnosed at the age of 12.
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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 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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Clark Eckel is a mountain cyclist for Team Novo Nordisk from Denver, Colorado that was diagnosed at age 11.
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Becky Furuta is a road cyclist for Team Novo Nordisk from Boulder, Colorado who was diagnosed at age 28. When Becky is not competing for Team Novo Nordisk she is also the mother of two small children.
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Ryan Phillips is one of the founders of Circle 8 logistics who was diagnosed with T1D at age 20 since his diagnosis he has ran three Ironman races, the Chicago and Boston marathon, and many half ironman races he also raised over $35,000 running for team Joslin which benifeted the Joslin Diabetes Center.
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Mandy Marquardt is a track cyclist for Team Novo Nordisk from Pennsylvania. Mandy is a eleven-time U.S. National Champion. She represented Team USA at the 2014 and 2015 UCI Track World Cups and representedTeam USA again at the 2016 UCI Track World Cup in Los Angeles.
photo credits- ©David Bracetty Photography
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Mike Natter is a medical professional from New York city who lives and works in Philadelphia . Mike was diagnosed with T1D at age 9 and makes art about different medical topics including T1D and some of his work is featured on the website in the interesting stuff for T1D's tab.
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Sahil Om Madan is a 25 year old engineer for Siemens from India who was diagnosed with T1D in college at the age of 20.
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Anita Nicole Brown is a type 1 diabetic actress who has been in movies such as Crisis Function, A woman and a gun and has also been in episodes of the NBC series Chicago Fire.
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Alyssa (left) is a freshman at the University Of Georgia she has been with type 1 diabetes since she was 8 years old.
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Salvador Martinez is a 36 year old runner from Mexico, who runs for team Novo Nordisk which is a team of diabetic cyclists, runners, and triathletes whose mission is to inspire, educate and empower people affected by diabetes. Here Salvador is pictured with his wife and daughter after a race
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