Team ENOUGH Executive Council
The mission of Team ENOUGH is to educate young people about gun violence and mobilize them to take meaningful action against it. Our Executive Council is comprised of dedicated youth activists who are in charge of making our mission a reality.
Ritika
Iyer
Ritika Iyer traces her activism to fighting her local school board for the inclusion of novels written by people of color in the curriculum. She also found a local organization called Never Again SoCal in collaboration with her state senator and local high school students. After serving on the leadership team for the Team ENOUGH D.C. Youth Lobbying Collective for a year, she now serves as the national youth lobbying coordinator for Team ENOUGH, while on the Executive Council.
Ritika also currently serves as the co-director for March For Our Lives George Washington while keeping with her South Asian heritage as a dancer on George Washington Raas. Ritika is a junior at the George Washington University’s International Affairs program, with a minor in criminal justice. Ritika believes that by the youth keeping pressure on local, state, and federal governments, we can pass progressive legislation that tackles intersectional gun violence issues.
Stephan
Abrams
Stephan Abrams is the national chapter coordinator at Team ENOUGH and a member of the Team ENOUGH Executive Council. He’s currently a sophomore at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Stephan is primarily focused on community organizing and gun violence prevention policy.
He became involved with Team ENOUGH by creating multiple chapters across California, starting at just 15 years old. Stephan continues to lead a statewide lobbying group for Team ENOUGH students to advocate for legislation in California. In recent years, Stephan has spoken out about homemade “ghost guns,” garnering local and national attention. He looks to expand the role of youth in the legislative process and empower young people to use their voice to create change in the community.
Kashish
Bastola
Kashish Bastola is a 16-year-old community organizer in McKinney, Texas, who actively works towards mobilizing young people to protect BIPOC communities. His activism has roots in the Chicagoland area where he grew up and connects to his background as a first generation Nepalese-American. He has fought against state-sanctioned violence by protesting police brutality and through on-the-ground efforts to recognize police violence as gun violence. Kashish is currently the communications captain of March For Our Lives TX and a board member of MFOL Greater Dallas. In addition to his work preventing gun violence, he has started a grassroots movement in his community to call for education equity and to push for intersectionality in organizing spaces. All of Kashish’s work centers around decoloniality and reparations, and focuses on Black, Indigenous, and Trans liberation.
Ivan
Garcia
Ivan Garcia is an incoming first-year student at UC Davis and is from Oakland, CA. Raised in the Oakland community, Ivan has lived the real experience of fearing gun violence every day and has drawn his activism from witnessing the deep disparities and inequalities within his region. Being raised by a single mother, he witnessed many of these disparities himself, from struggling to make ends meet to having inadequate access to public education, and thus has been able to understand the root causes of violence and institutional issues, including gun violence.
Ivan first joined Team ENOUGH in 2019, following a lobby day at the CA State Capitol, and that same year, launched the first iteration of the Team ENOUGH CA Youth Lobbying Collective. After leading the Team ENOUGH CA Youth Lobbying Collective for two semesters, he transitioned to the role of National Youth Lobbying Coordinator, where he oversees all programs for the Youth Lobbying Collective. Throughout this work, Ivan finds it crucial that we analyze the issue of gun violence through an intersectional lens. A lens that acknowledges identities such as his: urban gun violence, as well as Latinx, LGBTQ+, and lower-income communities.
Jasir
Rahman
Jasir Rahman is a senior at Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky. After a loaded gun made its way onto Henry Clay’s campus in 2018, Jasir advocated for increased firearm education for parents and guardians of minors in the state. Before joining Team ENOUGH’s Executive Council, he interned with Charles Booker’s campaign for Senate and Done Waiting, a grassroots coalition of young people that fights to make progressive change. Jasir hopes to expand Team ENOUGH’s efforts in states like Kentucky where corrupt politicians and public perception about the state’s views have impeded efforts at gun reform — despite the fact that policies such as expanding Brady Background background checks have bipartisan support among voters.
Simone
Paradis
Simone Paradis is a student at Pitzer College, pursuing a combined major in political studies and organizational studies. She became involved in the gun violence prevention movement after the Sandy Hook School tragedy turned her community upside down. Simone has worked with the Junior Newtown Action Alliance to organize and speak at protests across the Northeast and attend annual lobbying trips to D.C. She also served as a Summer of Action Fellow with Students Demand Action this past summer to register voters in states most impacted by voter suppression. Simone believes in a multifaceted approach to reducing all aspects of gun violence, and is passionate about building a powerful network of families, survivors, and advocates.
Anthony
David
Anthony David Jr. is a 21-year-old native Washingtonian studying environmental science and sustainability at the Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. Anthony is devoted to combating the environmental and racial injustices of white supremacy as it relates to nutrition accessibility, climate change, and environmental aesthetic.
Anthony is a member of the Team ENOUGH Executive Council, leading much of Team ENOUGH’s work and programming to prevent gun violence in Washington, D.C. Over the years, Anthony has also organized voting registration events with Students Demand Action and has participated in mutual aid efforts with local organizations, including the Marion Barry Youth Leadership Institute, theTriggerProject, and the Concerned Citizens of D.C.
Mia
Tretta
Mia Tretta was shot and injured in the 2019 Saugus High School shooting. Her best friend, who was next to her, was shot and killed that day. In the aftermath of this tragedy, Mia has dedicated her life to gun violence prevention. She is involved with many grassroots organizations, including Everytown For Gun Safety, Mom’s Demand Action, Student’s Demand Action, Sandy Hook Promise, Newtown Action alliance, March For Our Lives, and recently joined Team ENOUGH’s advisory board.
She has testified for state and national policies to ban homemade “ghost guns” and gun violence at large. Most recently, she told her story about the shooting at Saugus High School and introduced President Biden at the White House as he announced a federal rule to regulate “ghost guns” as well as his nomination for the ATF. She also joined Gov. Gavin Newsom during the signing of SB 1327 — legislation to ban what ended her best friend’s life, “ghost guns.”
Lea
Nepomuceno
Lea Nepomuceno is a passionate journalist, advocate, and student at Scripps Ranch High School in San Diego, CA. Since the age of 12, Lea has dedicated herself to advocating for social justice reform within her community and beyond.
In 2019, Lea co-founded the organization Youth for Juvenile Justice Reform, interviewing over 200 formerly incarcerated youth across San Diego to provide an educational resource that demystifies the criminal and juvenile justice system.
With her advocacy rooted in the impact of storytelling, Lea has since hosted the podcast called Evidence for Change after being selected to take part in the Johns Hopkins’ Center for Gun Violence Prevention and Policy’s 2020 Summer Youth Institute. At the local level, Lea also represents over 121,000 students as the student member of the San Diego Unified School District Board of Education and serves as the youngest team member on the University of Southern California's Prison Education Project.
In 2020, Lea joined Team ENOUGH as a member of the California Lobbying Collective, where she served as a group lead in 2021 and Lobbying Collective lead in 2022. Beyond her work to prevent gun violence, Lea enjoys directing her school’s first-ever printed magazine, The WING, and mentoring youth at her church.
Marla
Telleria
Marla Telleria is a Nicaraguan-American activist who has been in the gun violence prevention movement for nearly three years. She’s currently working alongside Team ENOUGH’s Lobbying Collective in Washington, D.C. Her advocacy stems from a young age, speaking out about immigration violence and concerns, racial injustice, LGBTQ+ rights, and reproductive rights. Her passion to prevent gun violence ignited in high school as threats became more prevalent in our classrooms. She truly embodies and believes that we are the generation that will end gun violence. Marla is currently studying education and advocacy at Northern Virginia Community College.
Riley
Reed
Riley Reed is a recent graduate from DePaul University in Chicago, IL, with a degree in Political Science and Spanish. Although she proudly calls Chicago home, she grew up in Milwaukee, WI, where she started her activism journey by working on gender justice and LGBTQ+ rights, eventually joining the gun violence prevention movement when she was in high school.
Upon moving to Chicago, Riley became deeply invested in the community around her, helping organize protests, marches, and community advocacy groups. One of her proudest accomplishments was starting a youth-led non-profit around electing young queer people to office. Also as a former Brady intern and member of March For Our Lives, Riley advocates for the intersection of identity in the gun violence prevention space, particularly organizing around her Jewish and LGBTQ+ communities. Post graduation, Riley now works at the Jewish Federation and continues to push for progressive community building around the city of Chicago and beyond.
Christopher
Zoeller
Christopher Zoeller is a 20-year-old student at the University of Central Florida based in Orlando, FL. Losing his grandmother to firearm suicide when he was in elementary school, Christopher pushes to tell her story and uplift the stories of survivors around him. He is the former state and policy lead for March For Our Lives Florida, where he worked with a team of young organizers to draft a legislative plan to present in the Florida Capitol. Christopher also led the local Tampa and Orlando chapters of March For Our Lives while in high school and in college.
Christopher served as a fellow on the Team ENOUGH Florida Lobbying Collective and will soon be working as the program lead for the collective in Florida. He has worked tirelessly to ensure that the stories of gun violence survivors are uplifted by the community as a whole. Christopher is focused heavily on the firearm suicide aspect of gun violence, as it makes up the majority of gun deaths each year. He hopes to see progress in the movement to end gun violence and hold those in power accountable.
Olivia
Shull
Olivia Shull became involved in gun violence prevention at the age of 12 years old as a result of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Olivia has lived most of her life in Sandy Hook, CT, and attended Sandy Hook Elementary School. She earned her Bachelor's Degree in Community, Youth, and Education Studies with a minor in Women and Gender Studies in May of 2022. Olivia is now pursuing an accelerated Master's degree in Community Development and Planning with a concentration in Urban Resilience.
She hopes to continue to work in the non-profit world, combining youth advocacy and gun violence prevention. Olivia is a movement organizer with March For Our Lives and has worked with them since 2019. Olivia uses her story and experience with gun violence to educate and mobilize individuals across the nation.