But in the aftermath of last week’s massacre at a high school in Parkland, Fla., where a former student killed 17, Love said she has never felt more optimistic.
“I’m so glad it’s finally happening,” Love said. “I think that this is something that has been building quietly for a long time and it’s all coming out now.”
Love met Monday with a group of 15 Utahns to plan the protest, most of whom were fellow students from Skyline, Brighton, Judge and West high schools.
Previously strangers, Love said they found each other online after the surviving students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School announced their planned march in Washington, D.