Volunteer Stories

Young Changemakers Are Rewriting What Is Possible in the Gun Violence Prevention Movement and Beyond

Students Demand Action 2025 Wrapped

Thank You, Students: Your Work Helped Us Win in the 2025 Election

100 Students, 5 Days, 1 Goal: Grow As Movement Leaders and Organizers

What Does Disability Pride Month Mean to You? Three Members of the Students Demand Action Disabled Students Affinity Group Respond

17 Gun Safety Wins in the 2025 State Legislative Sessions

Text Team Captains: The Movement Builders Powering the Text Team

‘We Didn’t Know if We Were Going to Make It Out’

Lawmakers: Listen to Young Trans People

I Know the Exact Day I Realized Gun Violence Was An Issue in the United States

Students Demand Action 2024: Gun Safety Wrapped

Thank You, Students: On International Volunteer Day 2024, We’re Honoring Your Action

I Can’t Vote—But I Can Still Get Involved and Have a Say in the Election

What Is the Students Demand Action National Training Team?

Celebrating AANHPI Communities in May and Every Month After

“Texting Is an Integral Part of the Gun Violence Prevention Movement”

If You Can Make a Difference in the World, Do It—and Don’t Look Back

Tennessee students deserve safe schools. Our lawmakers must act on gun violence.

Many young Tennesseans will head back to school in the coming weeks, and we must continue to demand our lawmakers take action on gun safety.

We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Proud

Turning Sympathy into Change: Youth Advocacy for Gun Violence Prevention in Indianapolis

Here We Are: How Students Show Up to Prevent Gun Violence

Jakoby Mitchell: Turning Our Pain Into Purpose

The Gun Industry Can’t Ignore Students Demand Action

Secure storage is important for gun violence prevention and school safety. Here’s how I’ve advocated for it in my community.

Students Demand Action volunteer Madeleine Ahmadi is a prominent advocate for secure storage in her community of Essex Junction, Vermont.