Before she turned 20, Tatiana Washington had become a leading voice against gun violence, an anti-violence leader and the executive director of the 50 Miles More march. Violence touched her life personally. She lost an aunt to a murder-suicide in 2017, but it was the rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School the following year that moved her to take action and take to the streets to campaign against gun violence. Tatiana is now a state policy associate with March for Our Lives, which led demonstrations across the country after the Florida  shootings. She also helped to organize a national youth summit in Milwaukee and interned with the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort. She’s also on the executive council of the Brady Campaign’s “Team Enough,” a youth initiative to eliminate gun violence. In 2018, 50 Miles More walked 50 miles from Madison to Janesville, to then-Speaker Paul Ryan’s hometown. The group gets its name from the 54-mile civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965. Earlier this year, the group walked from Milwaukee to Madison to present a variety of demands to the governor. Key to their demands, she says, is the need to simply listen to Black women and the Black LGBTQ+ community. Tatiana graduated from Rufus King International High School in 2019 and started college at Trinity Washington University in Washington, D.C. This spring she was a national surrogate for Bernie Sanders.