RARE Young Adults Speaker Bureau Writing Share this page Check out these written stories from RARE Young Adults members. Carter Hemion Graceful Strength: Living Resiliently with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Featured) MLT resident works to raise awareness about a group of connective tissue disorders (Featured) Rare disease patients need the STAT Act to pass Letter to My Younger Self Finding Myself in My Rare and Queer Identities Kendall Rump Patient, Heal Thyself: My Research Internship with ACMCRN Women in RARE: Next Gen (Featured) Jessie Birnbaum Catastrophe and Confusion: My Journey as a Medical Mystery Living RARE Jordan Howard The Importance of Newborn Screening From Camp to Capitol Hill, Jordan Howard Advocates for Hemophilia (Featured) Kathryn Cowie Why academia drives out young, chronically ill students Embracing Contradictions: My Diagnosis Journey Camryn Berry PhD Student Researching Rare Bone Disorder She Was Diagnosed with as a Child Alumna Spotlight: Camryn Berry ‘21 – Turning Personal Adversity into Scientific Advocacy Gabbi Lewis Beauty in Being Rare