Back to school in the age of school shootings

KUOW | By Medha Kumar

Published August 14, 2018 at 4:32 PM AKDT

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On the one month anniversary of the Parkland shooting, students at Raisbeck Aviation High School in Tukwila held a walk out. A student's sign quoted the words of Parkland student Emma Gonzalez who spoke out against current gun policies.

KUOW Photo / Braeden Swanson

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Students walk out of Raisbeck Aviation High School in Tukwila to advocate for gun control.

KUOW Photo / Braeden Swanson

The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida sparked a youth movement for change across the nation. In part two of our School Shootings in America podcast, we speak to teens in Seattle to see how they’ve been inspired to take action, and why this event was different than the ones before.

Why now? What inspired these students to get involved in one of the nation’s most controversial policy debates, and what keeps them going?

In part one of this podcast last week, we heard the accounts of Danielle Gilbert and Monique Miquel, two survivors of the Parkland shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

This podcast was created in KUOW's RadioActive Intro to Journalism Workshop for 15-18 year olds, with production support from Natalie Newcomb. Edited by Ann Kane. Find RadioActive on Facebook, Twitterand Instagram, and on the RadioActive podcast.