--- title: Nina Vinik | TIME description: Vinik is the founder and executive director of Project Unloaded, an organization working to inspire the next generation to choose not to own or use guns through cultural campaigns. She lives in Chicago canonical: https://time.com/author/nina-vinik/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/nina-vinik/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Nina Vinik ## Nina Vinik Vinik is the founder and executive director of [Project Unloaded](http://projectunloaded.org/), an organization working to inspire the next generation to choose not to own or use guns through cultural campaigns. She lives in Chicago ## Nina Vinik *  Oct 26, 2023 ### [Rewriting the Narrative on Guns](https://time.com/6328465/stories-guns-violence-essay/) 'Human-centered, data-backed stories about gun violence can shift views and behaviors around guns," ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/nina-vinik/","name":"Nina Vinik"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/nina-vinik/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/nina-vinik/"},"name":"Nina Vinik","jobTitle":null,"description":"Vinik is the founder and executive director of Project Unloaded, an organization working to inspire the next generation to choose not to own or use guns through cultural campaigns. She lives in Chicago","url":"https://time.com/author/nina-vinik/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```