We’re thrilled to introduce the talented and passionate young leaders selected to represent our local T1D Community at the 2025 Children’s Congress! These delegates were chosen through a rigorous application process that highlighted their commitment to Breakthrough T1D, leadership, and advocacy efforts.
Meet Abbey – Western PA Delegate
Abbey is a rising senior who plans to attend college after high school. She is passionate about photography and videography and loves to travel. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her friends, family, and two dogs.
Abbey was diagnosed with T1D in 2017 when she was in the second grade. She enjoys organizing a team for Breakthrough T1D Walk every year and volunteering at the Western Pennsylvania Gala. She loves public speaking and educating others about T1D.
Meet Caremy – Central PA Delegate
Caremy was diagnosed with T1D in November 2021, at the age of 7, after battling several respiratory illnesses. Aside from the large amount of information given to her and her family, one of the main things she remembers from those first few days was the incredible staff that helped her learn what her new normal was.
Since her diagnosis, Caremy has become an advocate for T1D awareness. She won the 2023 Carlisle Ice Queen Competition with T1D as her platform, taught her class each year what T1D is, created social media platforms, is an ambassador for several different groups, and has participated in various activities.
At home, when it is time for her devices to be changed, she likes to dance with her family to various songs to help relieve the stress and pain each time. Each year, her family celebrates her diaversary through different activities. At first, it seemed like such a weird thing to celebrate. However, she chooses to view it as celebrating her strength in this new lifelong journey. Her motto is “T1D chose the wrong girl to pick on because T1D doesn’t define me.”
Meet Khloe – West Virginia Delegate
Khloe is a high schooler who enjoys musical theater, reading, and babysitting. She’s heavily involved in her local theater company and has participated in four of their musicals. You can often find her babysitting her younger neighbors or singing in the worship choir at her church. When she grows up, she wants to be a school psychologist.
She’s been a Youth Ambassador for Breakthrough T1D twice and loves participating in Walk events. She has had her own team, Khloe’s Krusaders for a Kure, for multiple years. This team has raised over $10,000. She loves to show all younger kids with type 1 diabetes that she meets that they can be proud of who they are and not hide their condition!
This July, Abbey, Caremy and Khloe will be a part of more than 160 children with type 1 diabetes (T1D) between the ages of 4 – 17 to gather in Washington, D.C. and meet face-to-face with some of the top decision-makers in the U.S. Government.
The selected Delegates represent all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as Breakthrough T1D’s five International Affiliates. As participants in Breakthrough T1D Children’s Congress, Delegates have a unique and empowering opportunity to help Members of Congress understand what life with T1D is like, while forming lasting bonds with fellow youth who live with this autoimmune disease.
