Anna Pham is not your typical activist. At just 11 years old, she became passionate about gun control after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Joining other teens in March for Our Lives, a national student-led movement against gun violence, Anna turned to activism because she was “tired of seeing my representatives not doing anything and just tweeting.”
Now a rising junior at Murrieta Valley High School in California, Anna has led crowds of up to 8,000 protesters demanding gun safety reform — and she’s part of a generation that may be our last hope for meaningful change.
Anna said the failure to prevent recent gun violence is a result of politicians’ inaction. “We elect them to represent us and protect us and serve us,” Anna said. “For the past few years, they’ve clearly seen the outcry of public opinion, and how we are honestly tired of children dying, family members dying or our neighbors dying.”
