Name: Milo Sandman

Social Justice Group: 2023-2024, Mass shootings in the U.S. / School Shooting in US

Date of Fieldwork: January 30, 2024

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

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?:

The gun control group at LREI had an amazing offer to interview Donna Dees over zoom on 1/29/24. There was so much information that we learned that we might have never found without the help of her. Donna was extremely nice and very open to answering all of our questions, even when we asked what type of dog she had!

While interviewing her, we were able to find out why she started the Million Mom’s March and why she cares so much about this topic. It turns out that there was a shooting at a summer camp by a white supremacist who was trying to kill Jewish kids, and Donna’s daughters were the same age at the time as the kids shot, but they survived. She made it primarily for moms, high school students, college students, dads, single people, and so on. Donna also had a family member commit suicide with a gun that was left unlocked. Overall this meeting/interview really opened mine and our groups eyes to look at as many ways as we can to help and prevent guns from getting into the wrong hands.