Katie Beth Hand

Ambassador, Diabetes Health  ·  Advisory Board Member, Silverstein Dream Foundation

For thirteen years, Katie Beth Hand managed Type 1 diabetes every hour of every day. Today she lives free from daily insulin — the result of a pioneering islet cell transplant trial sponsored by Eledon Pharmaceuticals, and a story featured nationally on NBC Nightly News.

Now one of the most visible voices in the Type 1 community, Katie Beth has turned her experience into advocacy — expanding access to clinical trials, demystifying life with T1D, and giving patients and families real reason to hope. Hers is the rare perspective of someone who has both lived the disease and helped move its science forward.

As an Advisory Board Member of the Silverstein Dream Foundation, Katie Beth provides invaluable patient-centered insight, communications leadership, and community engagement expertise in support of the Foundation’s mission to advance diabetes prevention, groundbreaking research, education, and access to transformative therapies. Through her advocacy and growing digital platforms, she works to demystify life with Type 1 Diabetes, amplify awareness around clinical trial participation, and connect patients and families to the scientific advancements redefining the future of diabetes care.

In addition to her advocacy work, Katie Beth is an accomplished business executive and entrepreneur. She serves as Chief Operating Officer and Legacy Director at Pinnacle Legacy Law, where she oversees firm-wide operations, leads national attorney training initiatives, and directs strategic communications, content development, podcasting, and client engagement efforts. She is also the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Legacy Leaders Network, a national professional community dedicated to empowering leaders within the legal and financial industries through collaboration, mentorship, service, and impact-driven leadership.

Katie Beth earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Sociology from Ouachita Baptist University. She resides in Little Rock, Arkansas, with her husband and four children, where their family enjoys hiking, biking, kayaking, and exploring the outdoors together.

Driven by both personal experience and unwavering purpose, Katie Beth remains deeply committed to helping accelerate a future where breakthroughs in diabetes research become realities for patients worldwide. Her mission is to help create a world where every person living with Type 1 Diabetes has the opportunity to say, “I used to have Type 1 Diabetes.”