Name: Carolina Marinaccio

Social Justice Group: 2023-2024, Gun Violence Epidemic: NYC and USA

Date of Fieldwork: January 29, 2024

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Lunch & Lobby with senators.

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?:

For our fieldwork, we were able to get in touch for a Lunch & Lobby. Where we went on zoom and then were able to call 12 senators to convince them to pass Ethan’s Law. Ethan’s Law is a law which is trying to protect children and others from unsecured firearms. The name was named when Ethan a boy was tragically killed by an unsecured gun in 2018. The law would prevent things like this from happening again, by requiring safe gun storage. the Lunch and Lobby was run by a woman named Angela Weber who chose to get into the gun violence movement after her son survived a school shooting. As we called all the senators, we realized that not all of them would pick up. and typically we would just leave a voicemail. Some of the people in my group actually did get a hold of a senator on the phone! But sadly I was not one of those people. Overall this Lunch & Lobby was a pretty cool experience that I enjoyed doing a lot.