Allison Hurley had lived with type 1 diabetes for about 14 years when her endocrinologist referred her to DiabetesSisters in the spring of 2016, with the hopes of starting a local support group for women with diabetes in Columbus, Ohio. Allison immediately began plans for a PODS Meetup, and led the first meeting in July 2016.

Connie Hanham-Cain, RN, CDE met DiabetesSisters Founder Brandy Barnes at the American Association of Diabetes Educators conference in 2009, and attended the 1^st DiabetesSisters Weekend for Women conference in Raleigh, NC. In June 2010 she invited some of her colleagues with diabetes to join her in creating the first Part of DiabetesSisters (PODS) Meetup in the greater Albany, NY area.

On March 27, Dexcom announced that the FDA had granted approval for their new Dexcom G6® CGM System, scheduled for release toward the middle of 2018. We had a chance to chat with Kevin Sayer, President and Chief Executive Officer of Dexcom, about the new system, including questions from our PODS Leaders throughout the country.

Andrea Herndon knows her way around peer support and diabetes advocacy. Eight years ago, during the early stages of DiabetesSisters and PODS Meetups, she saw an advertisement for DiabetesSisters in a diabetes magazine while waiting at her doctor's office in Rochester, NY. Soon after, she invited a group of women living with diabetes to gather around her kitchen table, get to know each other, and talk about living with this disease.

Ashley Illuzzi began looking for a local diabetes support group in 2017, only a year after her Type 1 diabetes diagnosis. When she couldn’t find any groups specifically for women with diabetes in the Buffalo, NY area, she made the trip to attend several Rochester PODS meetups. She enjoyed them greatly and wanted to find a way to offer the same support to women in her local area.