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For nearly 35 years I have lived, worked and fought for safer communities across Virginia. I am proud to call this commonwealth home. I have spent much of my life helping to build a public health approach to firearm violence prevention in Virginia. I’m driven by my deep sorrow and anger after a friend died from gun violence and I’ve spent countless hours working with family members who have lost loved ones, and individuals who still suffer the physical and emotional scars of a bullet wound. But I’m also focused on this issue because gun violence is not inevitable. There are solutions that work, and we need to enact them in Virginia.

Together with partners in the Governor’s Mansion and the General Assembly, a wide coalition of community groups,

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