Gun violence isn’t something I talked about growing up—not because it didn’t happen, but because it happened so often. Turn on the news, there it was. Open social media, there it was. Throughout the neighborhood, there it was. Then one day, it was in my own family. It was at that moment that I became […]
Author Archives: Taina Patterson
Taina Patterson is a gun violence survivor, an Everytown Survivor Fellow, and a volunteer leader with Students Demand Action in Florida.