--- title: Cameron Kasky, Jaclyn Corin, David Hogg, Emma González and Alex Wind Is on the 2018 TIME 100 List description: Barack Obama on why Parkland’s Alex Wind, Cameron Kasky, David Hogg, Emma Gonzalez and Jaclyn Corin are among the most influential of 2018. canonical: https://time.com/collections/most-influential-people-2018/5217568/parkland-students/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-19T11:13:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-05T07:47:02.116Z og:title: The Parkland Students: The World’s 100 Most Influential People og:description: Former president Barack Obama profiles the young gun control activists og:url: https://time.com/collections/most-influential-people-2018/5217568/parkland-students/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6eb6d2a5ceb18f06/69892d8986f68e7b1f6e8df4/time-100-parkland-students.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The Parkland Students: The World’s 100 Most Influential People og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Parkland Students: The World’s 100 Most Influential People twitter:description: Former president Barack Obama profiles the young gun control activists twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6eb6d2a5ceb18f06/69892d8986f68e7b1f6e8df4/time-100-parkland-students.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 19, 2018 # Cameron Kasky, Jaclyn Corin, David Hogg, Emma González and Alex Wind > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by Barack Obama  Saoirse Ronan. Photograph by Peter Hapak for TIME Saoirse Ronan. Photograph by Peter Hapak for TIME Peter Hapak for TIME America’s response to mass shootings has long followed a predictable pattern. We mourn. Offer thoughts and prayers. Speculate about the motives. And then—even as no developed country endures a homicide rate like ours, a difference explained largely by pervasive accessibility to guns; even as the majority of gun owners support commonsense reforms—the political debate spirals into acrimony and paralysis. This time, something different is happening. This time, our children are calling us to account. The Parkland, Fla., students don’t have the kind of lobbyists or big budgets for attack ads that their opponents do. Most of them can’t even vote yet. But they have the power so often inherent in youth: to see the world anew; to reject the old constraints, outdated conventions and cowardice too often dressed up as wisdom. The power to insist that America can be better. Seared by memories of seeing their friends murdered at a place they believed to be safe, these young leaders don’t intimidate easily. They see the NRA and its allies—whether mealymouthed politicians or mendacious commentators peddling conspiracy theories—as mere shills for those who make money selling weapons of war to whoever can pay. They’re as comfortable speaking truth to power as they are dismissive of platitudes and punditry. And they live to mobilize their peers. Already, they’ve had some success persuading statehouses and some of the biggest gun retailers to change. Now it gets harder. A Republican Congress remains unmoved. NRA scare tactics still sway much of the country. Progress will be slow and frustrating. But by bearing witness to carnage, by asking tough questions and demanding real answers, the Parkland students are shaking us out of our complacency. The NRA’s favored candidates are starting to fear they might lose. Law-abiding gun owners are starting to speak out. As these young leaders make common cause with African Americans and Latinos—the disproportionate victims of gun violence—and reach voting age, the possibilities of meaningful change will steadily grow. Our history is defined by the youthful push to make America more just, more compassionate, more equal under the law. This generation—of Parkland, of Dreamers, of Black Lives Matter—embraces that duty. If they make their elders uncomfortable, that’s how it should be. Our kids now show us what we’ve told them America is all about, even if we haven’t always believed it ourselves: that our future isn’t written for us, but by us. _Obama was the 44th President of the United States_ See TIME's \[p-link http://time.com/time100 "full list"\] of the 100 Most Influential People of 2018 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/most-influential-people-2018/5217568/parkland-students/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/most-influential-people-2018/5217568/parkland-students/"},"headline":"The Parkland Students: The World’s 100 Most Influential People","datePublished":"2018-04-19T11:13:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-05T07:47:02.116Z","description":"Barack Obama on why Parkland’s Alex Wind, Cameron Kasky, David Hogg, Emma Gonzalez and Jaclyn Corin are among the most influential of 2018.","url":"https://time.com/collections/most-influential-people-2018/5217568/parkland-students/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6eb6d2a5ceb18f06/69892d8986f68e7b1f6e8df4/time-100-parkland-students.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[],"creator":"Time","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6eb6d2a5ceb18f06/69892d8986f68e7b1f6e8df4/time-100-parkland-students.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","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/collections/most-influential-people-2018/","name":"The 100 Most Influential People of 2018"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/most-influential-people-2018/5217568/parkland-students/","name":"The Parkland Students: The World’s 100 Most Influential People"}}]}] ```