Lori Alhadeff

Board member, Broward County Schools and Founder of school-safety organization Make Our Schools Safe (Fla.)

Lori Alhadeff is a former K-12 Health and Physical Education teacher, certified in New Jersey and New York. She was an athletics coach at Union Township School in Hampton, NJ, and a Health & Physical Education teacher for children with dyslexia and language-based learning disabilities at Windward School. For fourteen years, Lori was a stay at home mom of her three children. When her daughter, Alyssa, was tragically killed at Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, 2018, she founded Make Our Schools Safe, dedicated to protecting students and teachers at school. She founded the national non-profit organization with her husband, Dr. Ilan Alhadeff, and became a school safety advocate. In 2018, she was elected to The School Board of Broward County, Florida and currently serves as District 4 Board Member. She is also a fundraising volunteer for the Parkland Soccer Club. She graduated from The College of New Jersey with a Bachelor of Science in Health and Physical Education and a Master of Arts in Education from Gratz College.