Flynn

Hi, my name is Flynn Kochey and I am an eighth grader at LREI, Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School. My topic is Gun Violence Prevention and I chose this because of all the recent gun deaths that could of easily been prevented by a couple few and easy steps.

Interview of Joseph Blocher

As we got back from a long and relaxing winter break, we immediately got back into to action. We contacted a law professor from Duke named Joseph Blocher. Before he was a professor he was a clerk for a US Court of Appeals. The night before we talked with him we all read and annotated…

Interview of Kim Russell

We got into to contact with Kim thought the Manhattan chapter of the Brady Campaign. The Brady Campaign is one of the most well know organizations fighting gun violence. We had been in contact with Kim at the start of the whole social justice project and we met up a couple weeks later. We met…

Meeting with Leah Gunn Barrett

On November 18th, our group went to Lafayette street to meet with New Yorkers Against Gun Violence. We left sometime during school and used our trusty google maps to help us find our way. Once we arrived there we were surprised because it was a old fire station. At first, we doughted that that was…

Volunteering with Everytown

On November 13, Louie, Will and I all met at Bryant park to volunteer with some other Everytown volunteers. We met early in the morning on a friday when we didn’t have school. We walked around the park for a bit looking for any one who stood out. After a couple minutes searching we found…

Interview with Donna Dees

Interview with Donna DeesLast Monday, Louie, Will and I met Donna Dees, the founder of Million Mom March. The second we started this project we immediately contacted her because of her status with the school and the world. We set up a interview with her at 10:00 PM Monday. We met in front of the…