Thank you to all of our loved ones and neighbors for feeding my family, showering my girls with gifts, walking our dogs and emotionally supporting us when we needed it the most.
Thank you to our generous donors for ensuring my husband and best friend didn’t die in vain - for allowing us to create this foundation and, hopefully, protect our community from future tragedies.
Thank you to our partners at Hopkins, UVA and Moms Demand Action for driving many of our foundation’s initiatives - for keeping up our momentum when I struggled to get out of bed. A special thanks to Lori Haas and Gretchen Browne for making sure our urgent professional education priorities and community engagement needs were met, to Kim Desmond for keeping us organized, to Helen Dunn for covering our immediate communication needs, to Allison Spillman for connecting us to our schools and leading the charge in gun storage safety, and to Heather Carlton for serving as our pro bono counsel and connecting us to key community stakeholders.
Of course, my parents have been there - helping and advising - every step of the way, my brother Matt was instrumental in our branding, and my brother Christian single-handedly stood this organization up when I couldn’t.
Most importantly, thank you to Peter Martin for giving me the best years of my life and for sending me and your girls daily signs of your continued presence. You are and will always be our everything and we miss you desperately every minute of every day.
On behalf of myself, Emilia and McKenna- Our lives are forever shattered by this tragedy but we’re surviving because of all of you. You give us hope everyday and I hope to repay you with a safer tomorrow.”
