Name: Carolina Marinaccio

Social Justice Group: Gun Violence Epidemic: NYC and USA

Date of Fieldwork: January 30, 2024

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Donna Dees Interveiw

Type of Fieldwork: [69]

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?:

Yesterday my group was able to get in touch with a former LREI parent from years ago. Donna Dees, Donna Dees got in the Gun Violence movement after years ago their was a summer camp shooting where they were trying to kill the Jewish children. Donna’s daughters were around the same age as the children but they had survived. This made Donna get into the Gun Violence movement and start Millions Mom March. Which was an organization primarily made for moms who also wanted to stop gun violence. During the interview we got a lot more information, learned a lot, and heard her opinion on stuff. New York City and California actually have pretty good gun laws. And if the rest of the country had gun laws like theirs, there would be far less gun violence then their are now. Over all this interview was very informational.