because it s really and that s another source of fuel and comfort for us is just the amazing work that our daughter is doing. they all know it s her fund. you see her picture on the web site. the way that she loved people and the way that she served people, we get to carry it on for her. and a piece of joey goes out with all these people. absolutely. long after their deaths, joey, daniel and avielle, will still be making a difference in this world thanks to their parents who were able to turn tremendous tragedy into hope in honor of their children. and here she is, a fish in the water. i think about the horrible way my daughter died. it s really difficult to stomach. and i have really two feelings that emerge. one is i m angry. and i focus that anger on doing positive things. because that s the best thing for me. good job, joey!
going to listen to the bells chime in recognition of their loss. it s going to ring 26 times. and i said, i didn t know that. she said, where do you live? an i said, i m one of those parents that lost their kid. and i didn t know. and she just embraced me and wouldn t let me go. soon after that, the man who had spent his life in labs was behind podiums. my wife jennifer and i lost our only daughter, avielle, and 19 of her classmates and six of her educators. we want to look at neuroscience research to answer why. and the avielle foundation was up and running and beginning to grow. what we were shocked by was how this was such unmet need. nobody does this yet. very few people do. there are several reasons for that. ahead. there s quite a lot of opposition to biological
cultural change is part of jennifer hensel and jeremy richman s agenda for the foundation that honors their daughter, avielle. thank y all for coming tonight. the grassroots fundraisers alone won t get them the $10 million they say they need to make the avielle foundation a powerhouse in brain research and community education. the other dollar amounts come through grants. they come through angel donors. and those will come. and we re working on those. jennifer is also confident pushing for more research into the biological roots of violence is the right way to build a legacy for avielle. how do we get into the brain of that individual? how do we do that? that s a really hard path to
15 first graders all survived. three of the five first grade classrooms escaped unharmed that day. and the other two, a different story. they finally said, if you re in this room and you re waiting, there s your loved one s not coming back. among the 20 children and six educators who died that day. i think there s not a minute, not a second of any day that goes by where somewhere in my head i m thinking i don t have my daughter avielle. she s gone. that s always in my head. it s every second of every day that she s not with me. and that s enough.
within minutes i found a flight and i made arrangements for childcare. that was like, like i have to get up there. with their friends gathered around them, jennifer and jeremy grieved and began to plan. it was over the course of a couple of days where we started talking about how would they want to honor avi s legacy. those discussions quickly led to the creation of the avielle foundation. the goal of the foundation, prevent violence with science and education. to accomplish that, avielle s parents want her organization to fund long term brain research that looks for the biological root of violence. professor adrien rein is an expert in the field and is now an adviser to the avielle foundation. we have 41 normal controls, motors in the group. this is illustrating the key finding. good frontal lobe functioning in the normal individual. but if you look at the motor