Samantha Deitsch (born February 14, 2003) is an American author and gun control activist who survived the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018.
[1][2] 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.
[5] After the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Deitsch and her older brothers started to embark on gun control advocacy with March For Our Lives.
[6] She co-founded the organization and helped contribute to Glimmer of Hope, a book about the activism after the shooting.