In March 2022, Friends of Mewar’s founder, Padmaja Kumari Parmar, was invited to be a part of the ‘Inspiring Women Breaking Barriers with T1D’ panel by JDRF for their Type One Nation Virtual Summit.

JDRF is a nonprofit 501 organization that funds type 1 diabetes research, provides a broad array of community and activist services to the T1D population and actively advocates for regulation favorable to medical research and approval of new and improved treatment modalities.