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A Conversation with Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action
February 7, 2024 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm MST
by Carolyn Classen, blogger
| REGISTER HERE“We’re thrilled to kick off our 2024 series of Conversations with an in-depth hour talking to Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action. We’ll learn why she stepped out of active leadership of Moms, and what she plans to achieve with her new Substack, Playing With Fire. Shannon Watts, widely known as the “summoner of women’s audacity,” is the founder of Moms Demand Action, the nation’s largest grassroots group fighting against gun violence. She was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People, a Forbes 50 over 50 Changemaker, and a Glamour Woman of the Year. The day after the Sandy Hook School mass shooting tragedy in 2012, she started a Facebook group to unite women against the gun lobby as Mothers Against Drunk Driving united mothers against the alcohol lobby in the 1980s. Under her leadership, Moms Demand Action became the nation’s largest grassroots group fighting against gun violence. The organization has a chapter in every state and over 10 million supporters, making it twice as large as the National Rifle Association. Over the past decade, Moms Demand Action volunteers passed over 500 gun safety laws; stopped the gun industry’s agenda in statehouses 90 percent of the time; elected thousands of gun sense candidates to office, including its own volunteers; and passed the first federal gun legislation in a generation. Prior to founding Moms Demand Action, Watts – a mother of five – was a communications executive at public relations firms and Fortune 100 companies. She is an active board member of Emerge America, one of the nation’s leading organizations for recruiting and training women to run for office. Her book, Fight Like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World, was released in May of 2019. She has a significant social media platform with a regular reach of over 10 million highly engaged supporters.” |
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