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YOUTH AMBASSADORS BASKETS – DETROIT YOUTH AMBASSADORS BASKETS – DETROIT

NOAH AUDIA MICHAEL HARNETT

I was diagnosed with T1D when I was ten years old. When I was diagnosed, I had I love to volunteer with JDRF and I enjoy it when the staff gives me a call to
no idea what this disease was or how it would affect my life. My parents espe-
cially were worried what this meant on a long term scale. At first, it was a difficult help at the Gala. I look forward to helping more kids learn about type one
lifestyle change but over the years I began to learn how to manage the disease. diabetes and attending events where adults help and support research by
I have successfully lived with T1D for the past 8 years of my life and I hope to making donations. I send my time hanging with friends and love playing
continue to manage it successfully. I was a JDRF Youth Ambassador in 2021 and hockey! I’m currently a freshman at U of D Jesuit.
I want to continue being one in 2022. My goal in 2022 is to spread awareness
of the realities Type 1 Diabetics face everyday and ask people for their support
to cure T1D. Most importantly, I want to reach out to kids, similar to me when I To view and bid on Michael Harnett’s Youth Ambassador package, please
was first diagnosed, who are confused and unsure of the future to let them know see package #3003 in the online auction.
everything will be alright. I hope I can continue to work with JDRF as a Youth
Ambassador to spread this message and bring hope to newly diagnosed kids.

To view and bid on Noah Audia’s Youth Ambassador package, please see
package #3002 in the online auction.

ALEX LEFIEF BLAKE REGISTER

I was a youth ambassador for 4 years after being diagnosed at 12. I am a Before Blake’s diagnosis, T1D was very foreign to us. We quickly learned that
senior in high school and I plan to go to the University of Michigan to study T1D, an autoimmune disease, had nothing to do with her diet, activity, or
business. I sometimes look back on my diagnosis and wonder “what if I had lifestyle. Instead, her pancreas abruptly stopped producing insulin. We were
never become a diabetic… would I still be the same person with the same determined to not allow T1D to hijack her childhood. Blake is much more
drive and ambition that I have today?” My statement to be about what than someone with T1D. She is an artist, an actress an athlete and a big
surrounds my personal growth and strength through my diagnosis of T1D. sister. Her vibrant personality transforms any blank canvas to a colorful
masterpiece. She has shown incredible strength and courage as she navi-
gates this new “normal.”
To view and bid on Alex Lefief’s Youth Ambassador package, please see
package #3004 in the online auction. To view and bid on Blake Register’s Youth Ambassador package, please
see package #3001 in the online auction..

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