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Emma giving her speech on Celebration of the Life of Robert F. Kennedy on the 50th Anniversary of His Assassination. Photo by Arlington National Cemetery – Wikimedia commons

Top 10 Facts about Emma González

Emma González is a normal adolescent in several different manners. She’s vibrantly and jovially dressed, and she wears her aspirations, feelings, and ferocious self determination on her sleeve. She makes no effort to restrict her views. She binge-watches films and Tv series like “The Office” on Netflix. She knows every word to all of her favourite tracks, and her Spotify username is González spelled backward.

Emma González, 18, is far from ordinary.

1.Emma’s brief family background and education

Emma Gonzalez was born in 2000 to math tutor Beth Gonzalez and cybersecurity lawyer Jose Gonzalez, who relocated from Cuba to New York City in 1968. Gonzalez grew up in Parkland, Florida, with two older siblings.
In the spring of 2018, she is scheduled to graduate from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Gonzalez is the chairman of her school’s gay-straight alliance.

She was the tracking group captain on ‘Project Aquila’, a school plan which focused on sending a weather balloon ‘to the edge of space’. David Hogg, a fellow pupil, recorded the entire operation. Her major interests are liberal arts and astronomy, while mathematics is her least favorite.

2.Emma is well known at her young age because of a tragic experience

Emma González was a high school pupil in Parkland, Florida, when a mass shooter killed 17 people at her school on Valentine’s Day 2018. It was the deadliest high school shooting in US past.

González overcame her ordeal and turned her anguish into political engagement. She rapidly rose to prominence as a proponent of gun restrictions. She co-founded the political advocacy organization Never Again MSD and coordinated the 2018 March for Our Lives protest in Washington, D.C., where she delivered a rousing speech that catapulted her into the public limelight.

3.During her public speech at the protest Emma was well recognized for that

Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg at the Rally to Support Firearm Safety Legislation in Fort Lauderdale. Photo by Barry Stock – Wikimedia commons

Over the weekend of 2018, she took to the podium at the March for Our Lives protest in Washington, DC, and read the names of the 17 pupils and teachers killed at her high school in Parkland, Florida. She then went quiet.

One, two, three, four minutes had passed.

It was a deeply felt experience, described as “the noisiest silence in the historical record of US social rallies.” It was the 18-year-way old’s of demonstrating to the entire planet what it was like to duck down in a schoolroom for 6 minutes and 20 seconds while a serial killer embarked on a shooting rampage.

4.Aside from fighting gun control in America, Emma is a proud member of the LQBTQ community

González is bisexual and uses the pronouns they/them. As per Vogue, their shaved head is a visceral response to Florida’s weather as opposed to the mass shooting. ‘Are you taking a feminist stance?’ many asked. ‘No, I didn’t. It’s the state of Florida. Hair is just another sweater I have to wear.’ González remembered.

‘I even put together presentation slides to persuade my parents to let me cut my hair, and it served it purpose.’ González officially confirmed the use of an unique personal name (X González), X (obviously influenced by Malcolm X), in May 2021, referencing disassociation from their prior personal name and feminine pronouns.

5.Emma’s speech not only addressed the public but also Donald Trump himself

González and the pupils who initiated the #NeverAgain Movement are making strides to do what must be done, even if it means being scrutinized, called out, and violently assaulted. They want to speak openly for those who were absolutely terrified or unable to speak out and demand reform. Gonzalez did not end there.

‘If the President wishes to walk up to me and tell me to my face that it was a horrific incident and how it ought to never have occurred and constantly telling us that absolutely nothing is going to be done about it, I’m going to merrily ask him how much money he obtained from the National Rifle Association.’

Bloody disgrace on every political leader who accepts NRA contributions” (qt. Parkland Speaks). González called out the President of the United States and “every political figure who accepts NRA charitable contributions” on national television. She doesn’t care who she’s speaking to; she’ll do so with genuine enthusiasm and resilience in her tone.

She had the courage to say what wanted to be said to the most powerful individuals across the country, if not the world. González has performed numerous tasks that others would not be able to do, such as remaining calm throughout a shooting or straightforwardly confronting America’s most popular figure. And she always put on a brave face when she did these things.

6.We Call BS gave Emma and her friends very many opportunities in the public eye

Congressman Ted Deutch meets with Emma González. Photo by The Office of Congressman Ted Deutch – Wikimedia commons

Her speech was televised across the country, and her name started trending on Twitter that very same day. She started the @Emma4Change Twitter account to advocate for tougher gun control laws, and she and other Parkland victims established March for Our Lives, a charitable organization, fair and unbiased group that campaigns for tougher gun control laws and registers millennials to vote.

González now has 1.3 million Twitter followers, possibly hundreds more than the NRA’s following. She and other Parkland advocates, such as Cameron Kasky, Jaclyn Corin, and David Hogg, have appeared in magazines and been showcased on numerous news shows.

7.Emma and her fellow advocates are believed to be fake and actors

Emma Gonzalez and her classmates have been repeatedly criticized and disparaged for their advocacy by the democratic right wing of American politics and the press. Leslie Gibson, a Republican candidate running unchallenged for the Maine legislature and lifetime NRA supporter called her a ‘skinhead lesbian’. He was then obligated to quit the campaign for the Maine legislature.

Conspiracy theorists have wrongly accused Gonzalez and her fellow civil rights activists of being ‘crisis actors’. Following her heavily published speech at the ‘March for Our Lives,’ photoshopped images of her tearing a copy of the United States Constitution circulated online. Republican congressman Steve King also chastised her for wearing a Cuban flag patch on her jacket during her speech.

8.Gonzalez’s was once featured on the cover of Times Magazine

She’s graced the cover of Time. The magazine’s April 2 2018 issue features educators from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who are in control of the public dialogue about gun regulation. It also includes David Hogg, Cameron Kasky, Alex Wind, and Jaclyn Corin, as well as the word “ENOUGH” printed in bold print and imposed across the image.

9.All her had work paid of and she was able to change the gun regulations in Florida

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act was approved by the Florida Legislature in March 2018. It increases the age limit for purchasing firearms to 21, institutes waiting periods and background checks, creates a system for equipping some teaching staff and employing campus police, outlaws assault weapons, and prohibits potentially violent or mentally ill people apprehended under certain legislation from owning guns.

The law allots approximately $400 million for execution. On March 9, Rick Scott passed the bill into law. The governor stated, “You made your concerns addressed, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School pupils. You didn’t give up and fought until something changed.”

10.Emma has always been involved in activism even before the shooting

Emma Gonzalez speaks at the March for Our Lives. Photo by Mobilus In Mobili – Wikimedia commons

She has always been involved in classroom discussions and served as president of the school’s GSA [Gay-Straight Alliance]. However, she  didn’t want to be just another speaker in the audience, hoping that people would listen to her at that stage of her life. She  was still striving to become the person she wanted to be, which meant she was waiting for university. She  was still developing as an individual. She thinks she had her sense of style figured out a lot better in her senior year of high school. She had her hair down pat.