Brina milikowsky biography

In early April of this year, I interviewed Brina Milikowsky ’96 about her work with Michael Bloomberg’s gun-control coalition, Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

Shortly thereafter, the Senate rejected a bipartisan bill—supported by a strong majority of the American public—to expand background checks for gun buyers. Flanked by victims of the Newtown school shooting, an unusually angry Barack Obama described the defeat as “a pretty shameful day for Washington.” If our government couldn’t enact limited but lifesaving legislation that most of the populace thought was reasonable, how could we hope for any kind of progress?

I brace myself for a gloomy encounter with Brina.

Instead, I get a reminder—almost uplifting—about the mechanics of change.

“Actually, the mood on the inside is very different from what I think the national mood about it is,” Brina says about the fallen Manchin-Toomey bill.

“The national news was, ‘The vote faile