Cheryl Stumbo is a survivor of the 2006 mass shooting at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, where she was working at the time as its Director of Marketing & Communications. She was critically injured by a point-blank shot to her abdomen by an intruder armed with a semi-automatic hand-gun loaded with hollow-point bullets. After surviving and enduring 20 surgeries over three years, She later became the citizen sponsor of Washington State’s Initiative 594 for criminal background checks on all gun sales and transfers in the state, which passed by a strong majority on the November 2014 ballot. Stumbo is a board member of the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility. She was also one of ParentMap's 2015 Superheroes.