Fourteen Years After Jessi’s Death:…
Always remembered, always honored, always loved On July 20, 2012, twelve people, including our daughter, Jessi Redfield Ghawi, were murdered...
Read More
After the Sirens: Healing, Dignity,…
Grant-Funded Initiative Will Educate Public on Survivors' Rights, Trauma Responses, and Pathways to Healing Survivors Empowered is proud to announce...
Read More
Japanese art of kintsugi proves…
‘Broken & Beautiful’ by Wavecrest Films featured at LA film festival “Broken & Beautiful,” a new short documentary produced and...
Read MoreNews Archive
How a 2000 Colorado law that protects gun makers set the stage for a Texas school massacre.
Lonnie Phillips’ opinion piece, in the Colorado Sun • March 23, 2023
Colorado law makes it very difficult and financially perilous to sue the gun industry. That’s likely to change.
Sandy’s & Lonnie’s experience, with Colorado’s horrible PLCCA law, is documented in this article about the movement underway to end that law
Parents of Children Lost to Gun Violence Demand Change
Northwell’s Center for Gun Violence Prevention
hosts survivors and advocates seeking solutions • June 22, 2022
TV News Coverage of Northwell Conference
We can Change the Future of Gun Violence
Sandy Phillips & Devin Hughes, June 20, 2022
Survivors of gun violence will not be silenced
READER COMMENTARY
For The Baltimore Sun, May 20, 2022
USA Today Op-Ed by Sandy & Lonnie Phillips
In the wake of yet another mass school shooting, in Michigan, December 3, 2021…
Aurora theater shooting victims ‘re-traumatized’ by another Aurora mass shooting
By Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, Letter to the Editor, Colorado Sentinel, November 16, 2021
Work on ending gun violence must move forward, even without ATF leader
Guest Commentary, Denver Post, Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, September 20, 2021
A Mother’s Mission to Support Families of Gun Violence Victims
San Antonio Magazine, September 2020
An Unspeakable Tragedy Changed This Mother’s Attitude About Guns
PopSugar, May 11, 2016