Celeste Robinson Fulcher is a mother, wife, and retired federal employee specializing in veteran services. She and her family lived in West Haven in 2013 when her daughter Erika Robinson was killed in a mass shooting in New Haven. Since that time, Celeste has committed to honoring her daughter's life, her own, and sharing support for other moms and families who are impacted by gun violence. Her influence can also be felt as one of the four founding mothers who helped build the New Haven Botanical Garden Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence – a place of hope and healing we all should visit.

Links from this episode: New Haven Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence

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Kristin Song became a gun safety activist after her 15-year-old son Ethan was killed with an unsecured gun in his best friend's house. In the second episode of our Shared Humanity: The humans behind the headlines podcast and video series, our activist in residence Nelba Márquez-Greene talks to Song about safe storage and how the unjust loss of a child changes life forever.

Song's unifying approach in Connecticut resulted in the passing of Ethan's Law with overwhelming bipartisan support. The law requires all guns to be secured if a child or unauthorized person can gain access. Now Maine, Michigan, New Mexico, and Maryland have passed child access prevention laws and Song is currently working with six other states to pass Ethan's Law.

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In this first episode of Shared Humanity: the humans behind the headlines, host Nelba Márquez-Greene, Yale School of Public Health Activist in Residence, is joined by author, activist, and mother of Trayvon Martin, Sybrina Fulton. As Mother's Day nears, the two speak about what loss is like more than ten years later, how their community supports them, and Circle of Mothers, an organization founded by Fulton through the Trayvon Martin Foundation.

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Circle of Mothers: https://www.circleofmothers.org/

Trayvon Martin Foundation: https://www.trayvonmartinfoundation.org

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