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Grieving in a Fishbowl

The Aftermath: Mass Shootings in the U.S.

"The Rebels Project" was Founded by Columbine Survivors

Twenty years after Columbine, mass shooting survivors help others heal

What happens after a mass shooting?

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Glamour magazine

"We Have to Stop the Violence": How 8 Survivors of Mass Shootings Are Fighting to Make Everyone Safer

Columbine, Sandy Hook, San Bernadino, Orlando—the list grows by the day. But these eight women think we can end the cycle of mass shootings. They should know. They were there.

HUFFINGTON POST

“TO EXPECT SOMEONE TO BE OVER IT IN A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME IS INACCURATE AND ITS UNFAIR.”

Sherrie Lawson was in a meeting with colleagues when she heard gunshots ring out. At first she assumed they were the sounds of dropped tables and chairs, but soon she realized there was a gunman in the building, and ran outdoors with her colleagues. She had just returned to work after a surgery, and as she scaled a brick wall, she remembers hoping her stitches would hold.

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AFTER COLUMBINE, AN UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP BOUND BY THE TRAUMA OF MASS SHOOTINGS

Heather Martin (left) was a student at Columbine High School in 1999. She met Sherrie Lawson, who worked at the Washington, D.C., Navy Yard in 2013 during the shooting there, through Martin's support organization, the Rebels Project.