In the nation’s capital, students from Parkland, Fla. On Saturday, some of Haviland’s students, born in the years after Columbine, participated in the Denver “March For Our Lives” to protest school gun violence, one of many demonstrations held across the United States. Even now, the images of children walking out of schools with their hands up is too much for her to bear.
The nightmares, always of being chased, lingered for years. Yet, she’s never fully escaped the effects of what happened to her on that morning in Littleton, Colo. Now 35, she is the director of counseling for Denver’s public school system and has spent almost her entire professional life treating traumatized kids. (Kevin Moloney/Getty Images)Īt 16, she survived the carnage at Columbine High, a seminal moment in the evolution of modern school shootings. A memorial in a Littleton, Colo., cemetery honors the 13 victims of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre.
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