Teachers Unify Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence

This episode features Cyrena Arokium, a survivor from the Sandy Hook School shooting in 2012. She talks about her experience, what it’s like being a college student and her plans for the future.

This episode features Khadijah Butler, founder & president of the Craig D. Butler Scholarship Foundation. She speaks about the loss of her father to community gun violence, the scholarship foundation she’s created in his memory, working to help the students of Philadelphia and much more.

This extended episode features Melissa Gibbons, a teacher at Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan. She speaks about her experience from Nov. 30, 2021, how she’s using her voice to speak out, and much more.

This episode features Robert Wilcox, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which was created by the Biden Administration in Sept. 2023. He talks about his experience with gun violence, the work he’s done with the Office of Gun Violence Prevention and things teachers can do to make change.

This episode features Kaitlin Haynes. She speaks about losing her best friend and uncle to gun violence, going into schools every day for work, being a mom with the struggles and fears of raising Black sons today, and much more.

On this episode, we’ll hear from Natalie Niemeyer, a survivor from the Des Moines East High School shooting in March 2022. She speaks about how having educator parents shaped her formative years, which led her to education, her experience from the shooting, being a new mom amidst the loss of her parents, guiding her journalism students through covering the tragedy & navigating through caring for her mental health.