Lauren Hogg

Lauren Elizabeth Hogg (born June 10, 2003) is an American author and activist against gun violence. She survived the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018 and after became a co-founder of March for Our Lives and advocates against gun violence. She is the younger sister of gun control activist and former Marjory Stoneman Douglas student David Hogg, who also survived the shooting.

Early life and education Hogg was born on June 10, 2003, and Rebecca Boldrick, born in San Diego County, California and a teacher for Broward County Public Schools in Broward County, Florida. Hogg and her family moved to Washington, D.C. after the shooting, where she attended Georgetown Day School, graduating in 2021. She has stated that D.C. is her refuge.

She began studying at Georgetown University in the fall of 2021 and graduated in May 2025.

Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

On February 14, 2018, Hogg was a freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when a 19-year-old former student of the school entered the campus and started shooting with a semi-automatic rifle. Hogg was in a television production class when the shooting started; the fire alarm was activated and she believed it was possibly a prank because they had a fire alarm drill earlier in the day. When Hogg and other students were in the stairwell after evacuating due to the alarm, she realized that it was not a prank after she saw students running out of the building. Hogg reunited with her brother and father later that day. Her friends Jaime Guttenberg, Alaina Petty, Alyssa Alhadeff, and Gina Montalto were killed in the shooting.

Gun control advocacy After the shooting, Hogg became an activist against gun rights in the United States and became a co-founder of the March for Our Lives protests. She co-authored a book with her brother, David Hogg, called #NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line published by Random House.

Hogg testified as a witness before the United States House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery in September 2019, following new legislation in the United States Senate that addressed school safety. She also told members that lawmakers need to take steps including hiring mental health professionals to provide grief counseling to students and provide security in schools, in opposition to Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis signing a bill into law allowing public school districts to arm teachers.