South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Sunday)
Parkland students among magazine’s ‘Women of the Year’
Three Parkland school shooting survivors were named among Glamour magazine’s “Women of the Year” honorees for 2018.
The current and former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students who were highlighted are Emma Gonzalez, Jaclyn Corin and Samantha Fuentes. Fuentes suffered
entrance wounds from shrapnel on her face in the Feb. 14 massacre.
They are featured with other young “March For Our Lives” activists Edna Chavez of Los Angeles and Virginia’s Naomi Wadler, who at 11 was the youngest speaker at the rally in Washington D.C. in March.
“In the face of tragedy caused by gun violence, these student activists demanded change, and wouldn’t take no for an answer,” the magazine writes under a portrait of the five young women.
Glamour’s other Women of the Year include actor Viola Davis, Olympian Aly Raisman and 97-year-old National Park Service ranger Betty Reid Soskin.
“They are a diverse bunch, including a senator, an actress, and two groups of powerful young women fighting to make a lasting difference, but they have one thing in common: They aren’t waiting for the world to change; they’re getting the job done themselves,” the magazine’s introduction reads.
Glamour’s “Women of the Year” awards event takes place Nov. 12 in New York City.