Boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard joined an all-star celebrity cast last week when he spoke on a panel before a Senate committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs to request federal funding for diabetes research, blackamericaweb.com reports.
Leonard, whose family has been affected by diabetes, has been the international chairman of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Walk for a Cure and now has his own foundation, The Sugar Ray Leonard Foundation, which benefits the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Southern California chapter.
Joining Leonard to testify are Nick Jonas of the popular Jonas Brothers, who has Type 1 diabetes; actress Mary Tyler Moore, who is the foundation’s international chairwoman who also had juvenile diabetes, Dr. Griffin Rodgers, director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), as well as a group of children from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Israel, Greece and the United Kingdom.
The Senate hearing is the culmination of the foundation’s Children's Congress, which has been held every other year since 1999.
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