Age: 8
Age at T1D diagnosis: 4

Last year, Tegan and more than 1,600 of her closest friends led the largest JDRF One Walk team in the Greater Iowa Chapter’s history and raised more than $166,000 for T1D research. She and her grandfather, Rick, co-chaired the event. Tegan also serves as one of the chapter’s Youth Ambassadors and as a Ride Ambassador for the chapter’s team. She has spoken at several corporate kick-off events and at her school as well, describing life with T1D. Tegan hopes to be a diabetes nurse when she grows up, unless a cure is found first, in which case she would like to be a chef. When she is not busy volunteering for JDRF, Tegan plays soccer, sings and bakes with her mom.