On last night’s episode of The Pop-Up!, we continue our "Together We End Gun Violence Week" series with special guests Eddie Purpose, Founder and Executive Director of Progress Pushers, and Marvin Marshall, Executive Director of the Freedom Project.

Alongside host The Big O, the guests discussed the importance of leveraging lived experience in public safety work, the necessity of collective community action, and how partnering with established systems can lead to more effective violence prevention.

They also highlighted the King County Regional Office of Gun Violence Prevention’s 6th Annual National Gun Violence Awareness Day Gun Lockbox Giveaway happening this Friday, June 5.

Converge Media is partnering with the King County Regional Office of Gun Violence Prevention (ROGVP) for "Together We End Gun Violence Week" because both organizations are committed to owning the narrative around gun violence and public safety. This partnership is a strategic "takeover" of The Pop-Up!, which is explicitly designed to bring meaningful news, culture, and conversation to Seattle’s Black community–a community disproportionately affected by gun violence.