Nelba Márquez-Greene on the 'Constant Pressure to Hurry Your Healing' After Tragedy
Photo: Celeste Sloman Nelba Márquez-Greene is not a gun control activist, or a politician, or a pundit. “There is a constant pressure to hurry your healing,” says Márquez-Greene, one ofPEOPLE’s 2019 Women Changing the World. After her daughter Ana Grace, 6, was killed in the 2012 school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., the licensed marriage and family therapist, 44, found that the response from even well-meaning people was often misguided....