‘March For Our Lives’ Co-Founder David Hogg to Speak at Penn State

“March For Our Lives” co-founder and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor David Hogg will speak at Penn State at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18 in the HUB-Robeson Center’s Heritage Hall

The event is part of the Student Programming Association’s “SPA Day.”

The lecture is free for but tickets are required. Students can pick up tickets starting Wednesday, Jan. 9, in the SPA Office (226 HUB). Remaining tickets will be available to non-students starting Monday, Jan. 14.

Hogg was a senior at Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Fla., when the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history took place there on Feb. 14. Seventeen students and staff members were killed and 17 others were injured by a 19-year-old former student of the school.

Hogg and other students then started a youth-led gun violence prevention movement, “March For Our Lives.” Organizers held a nationwide demonstration on March 24, with students marching in Washington, D.C. and at more than 880 events around the world, including one in State College. Turnout was estimated between 1.2 and 2 million people, making it one of the largest protests in United States history.

Appearing on a number of television talk shows and news segments, Hogg quickly became one of the movement’s most prominent leaders.