Since then, Corin has completed degrees at Harvard and Oxford, interned at the Biden White House, and had a brief stint as ...

Gun safety group "March For Our Lives" plans mass demonstrations nationwide this weekend 03:44. In 2018, Jaclyn Corin spent hours trapped in a classroom as a shooter roamed the halls of Marjory ...

Jaclyn Corin was the junior class president at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. She and her classmates organize the March for our Lives in Washington in 2018.

Despite being elected junior class president at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, 17-year-old Jaclyn Corin had never been driven by politics or activism. But all of that changed in a single ...

Jaclyn Corin: It was wonderful, honestly, because I would have felt kind of left out if I hadn’t been able to vote in the election I was pushing so hard for. So it was great.

Just a few weeks ago, Jaclyn Corin was dreading her AP biology test. Now, the 17-year-old high school junior is at the vanguard of a student movement rocking the nation.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School senior Jaclyn Corin says, "The 17 people who lost their lives at my school are always on my mind" Like a typical high school senior, Jaclyn Corin is focused on ...

Jaclyn Corin walks with Sen. Lauren Book as they head to the Capitol Building in Tallahassee to speak to state legislators. By Susan Stocker/Sun Sentinel/TNS/Getty Images.

Yolanda, the eldest granddaughter of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., stood alongside Jaclyn Corin, a 17-year-old student who survived the Valentine's Day shooting at her Florida high school.

— Jaclyn Corin (@JaclynCorin) May 1, 2018. Corin appeared to reference the death of Stephon Clark, a black man shot and killed in March by Sacramento police who say they thought he had a gun.

JACLYN CORIN: Well, the ask is that our elected officials in our US Congress actually do something. I mean, over 150 gun laws around the country have been passed on a state level since 2018.