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Samantha Deitsch (born February 14, 2003) is an American author and gun control activist who survived the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018.

Early life

Samantha Deitsch was born on February 14, 2003. She started attending Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2017. Deitsch was a freshman at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School when the mass shooting occurred in 2018. She was friends with one of the victims, Jaime Guttenberg. She is the younger sister of film director Matt Deitsch and activist Ryan Deitsch.

Gun control advocacy

After the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Deitsch and her older brothers started to embark on gun control advocacy with March For Our Lives. She co-founded the organization and helped contribute to Glimmer of Hope, a book about the activism after the shooting. Prior to her gun control advocacy, Deitsch described herself as not politically active.

Political views

In 2019, Broward County, Florida, adopted a Text-to-9-1-1 system and Deitsch expressed her support for the new system: "Being able to text 911 is a necessary addition to pre-existing public safety resources".

Bibliography

• with March For Our Lives (2018). Glimmer of Hope: How Tragedy Sparked a Movement. Penguin Young Readers Group. ISBN 9781984836403.

References

1. Deitsch, Samantha (7 March 2018). "Poem for Parkland: I Can't Feel My Head". Jewish Journal. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
2. Lopez, Julyssa. "A 15-Year-Old Girl Wrote This Beautiful Poem About Surviving The Parkland Shooting". Glamour. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
3. "'Every day for me is Feb. 14': A year after mass shooting, Parkland's grief goes on". NBC News. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
4. "Parkland siblings Sam, Matt and Ryan Deitsch turned to a life of activism after the shooting". Sun Sentinel. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
5. "Parkland shooting stirs 3 siblings to lives of activism". ABC News. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
6. "3 siblings bond through March For Our Lives after shooting". WNYT NewsChannel 13. 13 February 2019. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
7. "Mission & Story". March For Our Lives. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
8. Glimmer of hope : how tragedy sparked a movement. . 2018. ISBN 9781984836090.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
9. Livni, Noa. "MSD students continue to adjust to life two years after deadly shooting". THE EAGLE EYE. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
10. Quinn, Mackenzie. "Broward County citizens can now text 911". THE EAGLE EYE. Retrieved 13 June 2022.

External links

• Sam Deitsch on Twitter

• Living people
• 2003 births
• American gun control activists
• American women non-fiction writers
• American political activists
• Organization founders
• Jewish American non-fiction writers
• Writers from Florida
• Youth activists
• American child activists
• People from Parkland, Florida
• Parkland high school shooting activists