Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan

Writer & Editor

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Writing about school shootings--and how we're trying to protect kids from them--is a bit of a departure for me, and an eye-opener, too. I shadowed police officers at a Boulder, Colorado elementary school during a routine lockdown drill while reporting this piece for 5280's special issue on the Columbine massacre, and the most surprising part? How emotional it was to watch a classroom full of second graders hiding silently in their coat cubbies.