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Shannon Watts arrives in the East Room of the White House in 2016. Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP file. While Watts plans on stepping down from her role at the end of this year and continue with ...
Shannon Watts formed Moms Demand Action after the Sandy Hook killings. Her organization is pushing for gun reform, and it's working.
Shannon Watts speaks to a crowd gathered by the US Capitol for a rally demanding action on gun violence on June 8, 2022 in Washington, DC. The Washington Post/Getty Images ...
Shannon Watts, one of the country’s most influential gun-safety activists, says she will retire later this year from Moms Demand Action, the grass-roots advocacy group she began in her kitchen a ...
Shannon Watts speaks about gun violence in schools during a news conference on Capitol Hill. Mark Wilson / Getty Images “I really was ready to take something on,” Watts told Know Your Value.
Shannon Watts folded laundry as news of the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that killed 20 children and six adults flashed across her television screen in 2012, rattling something ...
Gun Control Activist Shannon Watts Teaches Women How to Fight Like a Mother “I know that if I lose my children I have nothing left to lose, so I’m not going to be silenced and intimidated and ...
Shannon Watts was a stay-at-home mom of five in suburban Indiana on December 14, 2012 — the day 20 children and six educators were killed by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn.
Gun-control advocate Shannon Watts has decided against running to replace U.S. Rep. Jared Polis in the 2nd Congressional District, saying that she wants to stay focused on her work with her Moms De… ...
Shannon Watts, Julianne Moore, Liv Freundlich, Shenee Johnson and Ryan Pascal discuss gun violence prevention with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America ...