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This is Our Body Politics.

I'm Farai Chidea.

Life is profoundly shaped by what we do with our pain,

with grief, with tragedy. Do we let it take us under or do we find a path through what once seemed unthinkable? That's something that Nelba Marquez-Green-n knows intimately. First, she chose to become a licensed

marriage and family therapist, and then 10 years ago, her six-year-old daughter, Anna, was shot and

killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. In total, the gunman

killed 21st graders and six educators. Just days ago, nine families of Sandy Hook victims

were awarded $73 million in a judgment against Remington Arms. Lawyers successfully argued that

the gunmaker violated a state law by marketing to people who were risked to public safety or too

young to buy guns.

Nelba and her family did not participate in the suit, nor did the majority of families of victims.

She and her family founded the Anna Grace Project, an organization focused on building community and connection in order to prevent violence and promote healing.

And at the end of next month, there will also be an elementary school in Anna's name.

I sat down with Nelba, founder and executive director of the Anna Grace Project,

to ask what each of us can do about gun violence and how she continues to keep Anna's legacy alive.

You know, this is one of those things where I don't know where to start with you in some ways,

because you already were so deeply involved in trying to make the world better for families and children

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