Jaclyn Corin
Executive Director, March For Our Lives, Strategic Movement Builder, Parkland Survivor
Jaclyn Corin
Executive Director, March For Our Lives, Strategic Movement Builder, Parkland Survivor
Biography
Jaclyn Corin is a Parkland survivor, co-founder and the strategic force behind March For Our Lives, the youth-led movement that reshaped the national conversation on gun violence after the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. As profiled in Vanity Fair, Jackie was the brains behind the movement’s early strategy and infrastructure—helping to organize one of the largest youth mobilizations in American history.
After years on the frontlines, Jackie made the difficult decision to step back and focus on healing, studying and gaining a deeper understanding of policy and power. She studied first at Harvard, then at Oxford, where she earned her Master of Public Policy. That distance gave her clarity on what movements need not just to launch but to last.
Now, as Executive Director of March For Our Lives, Jackie is leading the organization through a bold and necessary reset. She brings a survivor’s urgency, an organizer’s precision and a strategist’s long view, focused on rebuilding sustainable, youth-led infrastructure that can hold power accountable and win real change.
Jackie speaks on youth leadership, sustainable organizing, navigating burnout and survivorship, and what it takes to move from disruption to durable impact. Jackie has been featured on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, CBS Mornings and NPR, with her work and voice highlighted in The New York Times, Teen Vogue, TIME and Vanity Fair, among others.
Speech Topics
Engage in the Change: Mobilizing a Generation to Protest
After the Parkland Shooting on February 14, 2018, Jaclyn Corin became a primary organizer and co-founder of the March for Our Lives movement. At a town hall in Denver, Corin addresses the biggest obstacle young activists face, the inability to vote. However, Corin urges students to not let this stop them and to “start clubs in your schools, you can join local clubs like Never Again Colorado, like Students Demand Action. You can talk to people that might not look like you, that might not understand your perspective on these issues. You can grab a clipboard and go to your local park and pre-register voters.” Using her logistical prowess, Corin is igniting a future generation of protestors and activists to shape their own future and advocate for the changes they want made.
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