PERSON: Ryan Deitsch

Never Again MSD

Founding Member

Ryan Deitsch (born November 30, 1999) is an American student activist against gun violence, and a survivor of the Parkland massacre. He is a founding member of the Never Again MSD movement.

Ryan Deitsch was born on November 30, 1999, into a Jewish family. He is the younger brother of filmmaker Matt Deitsch. He started attending Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2014 and graduated in 2018. After taking a gap year to conduct gun violence prevention activism, he began attending American University in Washington, D.C. Deitsch majored in International Service focusing on U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Latin America and human rights; he graduated December 2022.

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