December 20, 2019

Making Lemonade from Lemons: Meet PWD Christina Roth

Over the many years I’ve spent counseling and working with people with diabetes I’ve met many VERY inspiring people…people who have, as the expression goes, Made Lemonade from Lemons. Working with Tandem Diabetes Care, I’m profiling people who’ve taken the diagnosis of diabetes and are applying optimism and positivity to give back to their community. They’re showing the world just how well people with diabetes can live. In this column I interviewed Christina Roth In 2010, even before Christina had her undergraduate degree, she identified a need among college students with diabetes…connecting to others their age for emotional support. Fast forward a decade, Christina and her able staff, run the College Diabetes Network, a non-profit based in Boston. It’s a fantastic organization that serves the needs of young adults in college and in those transition years of young adulthood. Kudos to Christina! Read here ...