A little over a month after the tragic Dec. 13 school shooting that rattled campus, Brown University students headed back to classes on Jan. 21 for the spring semester. “That’s just how my PTSD manifested.”In time, though, she found a way forward by advocating for gun violence reform, starting in 2019. To this day, Weissman remains active in March For Our Lives, the gun violence prevention organization founded by Parkland shooting survivors. Now as a two-time school shooting survivor (she was, in fact, in her on-campus dorm at the time of the Brown shooting), Weissman wants others to understand the dire need for comprehensive federal gun violence prevention. Her activism is geared toward preventing others from experiencing gun violence at all — let alone two instances of it.