[6] As a student attending the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Jaclyn Corin was the junior class president at the time of the deadly shooting in 2018.
[4] Her close friends Joaquin Oliver[4] and Jaime Guttenberg were killed in the shooting; she had once tutored the 19-year-old alleged gunman and former student of the school, Nikolas Cruz.
[3] During the shooting, Corin was locked in a room with other classmates for several hours, emerging with hands up as instructed by the police SWAT units.
[3] Corin was a key organizer of the bus trip protest to the Florida state capital on February 20, six days after the shooting.
"[3] Working with fellow students-turned-activists Cameron Kasky and David Hogg, she recruited several hundred MSD students to make an eight-hour bus trip to Tallahassee as part of a "lightning strike".
[3] She helped engineer the behind-the-scenes logistics including transportation, chaperone and sleeping arrangements, scheduling meetings with Florida lawmakers and getting permission slips from parents.
[10] Corin criticized the NRA and gun manufacturers for touting the Ideal Conceal, a handgun that folds up to resemble a smart phone.