Whitney Ward is a public speaker and writer who seeks to encourage her audiences to overcome their circumstances. As someone who has a disability, it is her wish to give hope to others with illnesses so they will persevere and scale the mountains they face. In 2013, Whitney was diagnosed with a rare gene mutation. In fact, it was so rare that she was the first person to have ever been diagnosed with it. This disease is a Primary Immune Deficiency so horrific that she should not have survived her mother’s pregnancy. Today, she is 33 years old, healthy, and thriving because of God’s healing touch on her life. After years of research on this new disease, Whitney was invited to give the new phenomenon a name. She chose to call it “MAGIS Syndrome.” “MAGIS” is the Latin word for “more.” She gave it this name in hopes that it will give future patients who are diagnosed with MAGIS Syndrome the assurance that they are MORE than their disease. After living a childhood filled with surgeries, hospital visits, school absences, and unanswered questions, Whitney now speaks and writes to audiences nationwide to encourage them and tell them they are MORE than their circumstances.
