David Miles Hogg born April 12 2000 is an American gun control activist He rose to prominence during the 2018 United States gun violence protests as a student survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting helping lead several highprofile protests marches and boycotts including the boycott of The Ingraham Angle He has also been a target and scapegoat of several conspiracy theories With his sister Lauren Hogg he wrote NeverAgain A New Generation Draws the Line a book that made The New York Times Best Seller list They pledged to donate to charity all income from the book Hogg was included in Time magazines 100 Most Influential People of 2018 He is a cofounder of Good Pillow a pillow manufacturing companyand the founder of the Leaders We Deserve PAC