VICTORY FOR GUN SAFETY: Moms Demand Action Volunteer Shaundelle Brooks Re-elected to Tennessee House

WASHINGTON - Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund and its grassroots networks, Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, declared a major victory today as voters re-elected former Moms Demand Action volunteer Shaundelle Brooks as representative for Tennessee House District 60.

"In her first term, former Moms Demand Action volunteer Shaundelle Brooks became one of the strongest voices for gun safety in the Tennessee House, and voters made clear tonight that they want that voice back in Nashville," said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety. "Everytown congratulates Representative Brooks on her re-election, and we're proud to keep working with her to make Tennessee communities safer."

"Tennessee volunteers have spent years filling the Capitol to demand action from a legislature that keeps saying no, and for the last two years Shaundelle Brooks has been making their case inside the chamber," said Angela Ferrell-Zabala, executive director of Moms Demand Action. "She carries her son Akilah's memory into that work every session, and her neighbors have asked her to keep going. When our volunteers return to the Capitol in January, they'll have a partner waiting on the House floor."

"Shaundelle Brooks knows the cost of gun violence better than any mother should have to, and she has spent every day in office fighting to spare other Tennessee families from the same pain," said Jessica Gillen, a volunteer with the Tennessee chapter of Moms Demand Action. "Two more years for Representative Brooks means two more years of someone in the Tennessee House standing up to the gun lobby and for safer communities. We're proud to fight alongside her."

These candidates were among 547 Moms Demand Action volunteers who ran for offices up and down the ballot across 47 states this cycle, including 40 in all who ran for Congress. Many were trained through Demand a Seat, which Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund launched in 2021 to train grassroots volunteers and gun violence survivors to run for office. The program has trained more than 1,600 volunteers across 49 states and Washington, D.C. Since 2021, more than 600 former volunteers have been elected, including six who were already serving in Congress before this election.