Cameron Kasky

Cameron Kasky
Kasky speaking at a rally in 2018
Born	2000/2001 (age 17–18)
Nationality	American
Education	Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Occupation	Student
Years active	2018–present
Known for	Gun control advocacy and founding of Never Again MSD

Cameron Kasky (born 2000/2001) is an American activist against gun violence who co-founded the student-led gun control advocacy group Never Again MSD. Kasky is a survivor of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Born in 2000/2001, Kasky, a student, "theatre kid", and active member in the drama club at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was a junior at the time of the school shooting in February 2018. Kasky has a younger brother who was also a survivor of the shooting.

Kasky had just left drama class when the shooting began at Marjorie Stoneman High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018. After picking up his younger brother from a different classroom and exiting the school, the fire alarm sounded. With other students, they were instructed to go back inside. They waited an hour in a classroom until they were rescued.

After the massacre, Kasky brought several school friends to his house and with them founded Never Again MSD (#NeverAgain), a student-led gun control advocacy group. Kasky came up with the name "Never Again" while the group stayed up through the night to make plans, and he posted "Stay alert. #NeverAgain" to Facebook. The group works to create a national movement against gun violence, including a massive rally in Washington, DC, on March 24, 2018. According to a report in The New Yorker, it was Kasky's idea to found the activist group along with fellow students David Hogg, Emma González, Sarah Chadwick and others – a group described by reporter Michael Schulman as having "moral clarity and vision" in the gun control debate. Kasky wrote an op-ed on the CNN website describing the events of the massacre and his reaction to it. In an interview, Kasky told the CNN anchor Anderson Cooper that "my generation won't stand for this." Although known as a "theatre kid" with a reputation for being the class clown, Kasky's experience after the shooting was primarily one of anger: