Carly Graham is a Division I volleyball player at Rice University who was diagnosed less than a year ago with T1D at the age of 19.
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Lauren Ray was diagnosed with T1D at 11 years year old. She is currently attending Western Carolina University where she is studying to be a nurse so she can one day work with type 1 diabetics like herself
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Sophie Oshana is a 18 year old type 1 diabetic from Canada who is the founder of the clothing brand “Sweeter Times” which donates 15 % of their proceeds to diabetes research. A link to the “Sweeter Times” website can be found in our “Interesting Stuff For T1D’s page.”
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Dan Newman is a T1D from the United Kingdom who was diagnosed in 1996 at age 10. Dan is the host of the of The Talking Type 1 Podcast blog, and YouTube channel. which can be found in our “Interesting Stuff For T1D’s Page”. He can also be found at @t1d_dan on Instagram and Twitter and also works for JDRF UK.
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Madison Poulin was diagnosed at the age of 4 with T1D. She is now 20 and makes diabetic related content that we can all relate to on the popular app Tik Tok with her account @maddipoulin.
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Ariana Frayer was diagnosed with type 1 at 10 years old since then she has created a A Cup Of OJ: A Fresh take on living WIth Diabetes which can be found in our “interesting stuff for T1DS” page.
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Oguz was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes when he was 18 years old. Oguz loves to play sports and is part of a T!D running team in Turkey where he is from.
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Amshi Humphrey was diagnosed with T1D her freshman year of college while she was playing Division I volleyball Since then she has created her blog LivingDiabetter which can be found in our “interesting stuff for T1DS” page.
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Christel Oerum was diagnosed in 1997 right after she graduated high school. SInce then Christel had competed in bodybuilding competitions and has created her site Diabetes Strong which can be found in our “Interesting stuff for T1Ds page.”
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Roman Puriy is the owner and founder of the Greater Than Highs and Lows (GTHL) which can be found in our “Interesting Stuff For T1D’S page.” Roman was diagnosed at 3 years old in Ukraine.
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Kendall Higgs is a type 1 diabetic Division I women’s soccer player from Florida who plays for Kennesaw State University.
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Leah Shifrel is a 20 year old actor who currently lives in Brooklyn. Leah was diagnosed with T1D at age 18 at the end of her first semester of college.
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Jasmine Barrow is a high school Track and Field athlete that has had since she was 13 years old. She is an All-American Triple Jumper who is signed to run track and field at The University Of Connecticut with fellow T1Dlikeme Contributor Mackenzie Pias.
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Maggie Callahan is a 25 year old from Lousiville Kentucky that is an activities director at a mental health hospital who enjoys staying active and connecting with others. She spent this past year training to run her first marathon which she completed in November right at her goal time of 4 hours. Diabetes has been a part of her life for 13 years now and she doesn’t let it get in the way of my goals and aspirations in life.
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Brooke Miller is a student and treasurer of the College Diabetes Network chapter at the University Of Florida. Brooke also wrote Dancing with Diabetes a Type 1 Diabetes Children’s Book, to help others cope and relate to the same difficulties she had to overcome.
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Stephanie Chaparro who despite being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a freshman in college as a senior made it onto the Dean's List and got invited to be a member of Sigma Beta Delta: International Honor Society of Business, Management, and Administration.
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María Ignacia Montt is a 23 year old 100-200 meter sprinter for Team Chile and studies Business Administration and Economics at Pontificia Universidad Catolica (PUC) in Santiago, Chile.Before PUC, she studied and competed for the University of Portland in Oregon for two years. María has had T1D since she was 11 years old.
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Chauncy Smart (middle) is a type 1 diabetic track & field sprinter for the University of Miami (FL).
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Brett Martin is a Major league pitcher for the Texas Rangers who was diagnosed with T1D at age 16.
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Kellan Vanschalkwyk is a 18 year old baseball player who plays outfield, 1st base and third base, and is currently committed to Southwestern University. Kellan was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 12.
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