On the four year anniversary of the Tucson, Arizona shooting that injured Gabrielle Giffords ’93 and took the lives of six others, President Barack Obama met with the Scripps College alumna and said plainly: “she is a hero.”
And though Giffords left her role as member of the United States House of Representatives (D-AZ) in 2012, she’s still working with the “same energy and passion she always had” as an advocate for gun control. In commemoration of her story, Makers, the world’s largest collection of women’s stories, celebrates Giffords’ with a video about her resilience and optimism.
Watch Giffords inspire the Scripps College Class of 2009 in her commencement address below!
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