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Jennifer McManus

Jennifer McManus is a registered dietitian and certified diabetes care and education specialist. She is passionate about the microbiome and the role it plays in overall health and disease prevention. Jennifer loves to help individuals build the confidence ... Continue Reading »
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Jerry Gore

Jerry Gore, co-founder of Action4Diabetes, which supports children with T1D in seven countries, and a professional expedition mountaineer, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2001. Since 2004, Jerry has worked as a diabetes ambassador for The Internatio ... Continue Reading »
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Jewels Doskicz

Jewels Doskicz is a nurse with 22 years of clinical experience and 10 years of medical writing and editing experience. She was director of clinical content operations at GetWellLoop, a digital health tool. She has lived with T1D since age 13 and has a dau ... Continue Reading »
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Joanna Smiley

Joanna Smiley is an award-winning journalist with over 15 years of experience writing for newspapers, nonprofits and for profit corporations. She is also a mom to an 8-year-old warrior living with type 1 diabetes. ... Continue Reading »
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Julia Kenney

Advocacy Program Manager
Julia joined the diaTribe Foundation in 2020 after graduating with a degree in Political Science and International Relations from Carleton College.  ... Continue Reading »
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Julie Cunningham

practice offering online consultation, and she is also the author of 30 Days to Tame Type 2. ... Continue Reading »
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Julie Heverly

Senior Director, Time in Range Coalition
Julie Heverly joined The diaTribe Foundation in 2021 as the Director of Institutional Giving and was promoted to Senior Director of the Time In Range Coalition later that year. Heverly was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes after her junior year at Washington ... Continue Reading »
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Kara Miecznikowski

Kara originally joined diaTribe as a Summer Associate in May 2019. She is currently a guest writer for diaTribe Learn and is in her first year of medical school at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. ... Continue Reading »

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