Before a crowd at the March For Our Lives protest, a 17-year-old Edna Chavez told the heartbreaking story of her brother Ricardo, whose life was taken from him during a shooting outside of their South Los Angeles home. Ricardo was only 14 when he lost his life to a senseless act of gun violence. Deeply affected by her loss, Chavez became a youth leader at Community Coalition, speaking on a variety of issues from addiction and crime to poverty, civic rights, and immigrant rights. In 2018, she was named one of Teen Vogue's 21 Under 21.
