The grieving Parkland mum making schools safer
Lori Alhadeff’s 14 year old daughter Alyssa was killed in the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman High in Parkland, Florida, last year. It was the deadliest High School shooting in US history.
Lori says “on February 14th I had no power, everything was taken away from me” but since then she’s decided to use her “voice as her power” and advocate for school safety.
She ran for a seat on the local school board and won. She started a non-profit to raised money to equip school with security equipment. And her campaigning has led to the state of New Jersey adopting Alyssa's Law, which requires schools to have silent panic alarms fitted.
She says "I know Alyssa would want me to make sure her name lives on, and through the Alyssa Law that is going to happen". She talks about what made her daughter so special, and says she'll be marking the anniversary of her death by visiting her grave with Alyssa’s two brothers, and going to the beach to “write messages to Alyssa in the sand".
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