Bethany Lloyd is a highly motivated, relentless Liberian-American from Houston, Texas, where she attends Dickinson High School. Rather than becoming discouraged by the obstacles she faces, she utilizes her experiences to motivate her to work toward a better future for herself, her family, and the world.

Heavily motivated by a lifetime of scars on her fingers from taking her blood sugar and the mental toll that having Type-1 Diabetes has had on her life, Bethany is most proud of her work with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), where she has served as a youth ambassador since 2015 and has helped raise over $20 million to fund a cure for the disease. Through the JDRF, she was also selected to represent Texas at the JDRF Children’s Congress in our nation’s capital, where she lobbied congressmen and senators for additional T1D policies, which resulted in increased funding for the Special Diabetes Program (SDP) for the first time in 20 years! Bethany is also immensely proud of her achievements as a member of the Dickinson Youth Action Council where she works to create change in her local community, as well as being recognized as the Distinguished Young Woman of Galveston County and a QuestBridge College Prep Scholar.

In the future, Bethany hopes to create groundbreaking change in the realm of Type-1 Diabetic policy and legislation by attending law school, and she aims to reach the White House and to “be the change she wishes to see in the world”.