Organization: Sandy Hook Promise
Title: Co-Founder and CEO
Industry: Non-profit
Standout achievement in 2025: Secured significant funding for violence‑prevention programs, while engaging tens of millions of students and adults nationwide in school‑safety advocacy and awareness.
Hockley transformed her grief and anguish into action after her youngest son, Dylan, was murdered in his first-grade classroom during the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy.
Drawing on her extensive background in strategic communications, Hockley works to protect children from gun and school violence, and has built Sandy Hook Promise into a leading voice in the gun violence prevention movement.
Under her leadership, "Know the Signs" programs have reached more than 44 million students and adults, and prevented at least 19 planned school shootings, saving more than 1,100 lives through crisis interventions.
