Jamie Raskin said he and his family appreciate the support that Harvard - particularly his son’s Law School friends - has shown following his son’s death. In addition to serving as a teaching fellow in General Education 1171: “Justice: Ethics in an Age of Pandemic and Racial Reckoning” this fall, Raskin was a board member of Effective Altruism and a member of the Harvard Animal Law Society. Raskin graduated from Amherst College in 2017, where he majored in History, helped lead the Amherst Political Union, won the Kellogg Prize, and wrote “a compelling senior thesis on the intellectual history of the animal rights movement,” his parents wrote in the tribute. Raskin, both Harvard Law School graduates, penned a moving tribute to their son earlier this month, remembering a young man with “a perfect heart, a perfect soul, a riotously courageous and relentless sense of humor, and a dazzling radiant mind.” “But oftentimes these reflections and deliberations stay academic - Tommy always wanted to make sure he was translating the beliefs he arrived at into practice.” Jamin Ben “Jamie” Raskin ’83 (D-Md.), said in an interview with The Crimson. “College is a time when people do think about moral philosophy and morality, and that’s wonderful,” his father, U.S. Relentlessly passionate about aiding the global poor, Raskin’s friends and family said they will remember him as a visionary who displayed an intense commitment to justice and the truth, yet had an easy way of talking with people that made them feel heard and respected.ĭemby’s perception of Raskin’s passion to make the world a better place was shared by his family and friends. The cause of death was suicide after a long battle with depression, according to a family spokesperson. Raskin, a second year student at Harvard Law School, died Dec.
For that reason, when she learned a few weeks later that Raskin had donated to the anti-poverty organization Oxfam in the names of each of his students, she was not necessarily surprised, but simply “impressed and taken aback by how authentic he was as a person.” What set Raskin apart, though, was that he did not just talk about creating a more just world, he lived his life in pursuit of that goal, Demby said. “Tommy” Raskin - asking, “Shouldn’t we all be doing as much as we can to help those less fortunate than us?” Demby ’22 remembers her teaching fellow - Thomas B. The Fund has been launched with an initial contribution of $50,000.During a section discussion in the famed Harvard course “Justice” this fall, Suuba M. The official statement reads, “The Fund will distribute money on a semiannual basis to causes and charities championed and advanced by Tommy Raskin, such as Oxfam, Give Directly, the Helen Keller Institute, and Animal Outlook. Photo by Jacquelyn Martin-Pool/Getty Images Tommy Raskin Memorial Fund:įollowing Tommy’s death, the family decided to honor him by starting a memorial fund. FIND OUT: Wy was Vogue criticized for Kamala Harris cover?.They further wrote, “On the last hellish brutal day of that godawful miserable year of 2020, when hundreds of thousands of Americans and millions of people all over the world died alone in bed in the darkness from an invisible killer disease ravaging their bodies and minds, we also lost our dear, dear, beloved son, Hannah and Tabitha’s beloved irreplaceable brother, a radiant light in this broken world.” The stories of his love and compassion are absolutely astounding.”Īfter Tommy’s death, Jamie and his family had released a statement in which he remembered his son as someone who had a “perfect heart, a perfect soul, a riotously outrageous and relentless sense of humor, and a dazzling radiant mind.” But it wasn’t his mind that marked him as so extraordinary. He continued, “He had a photographic memory and, like some other kids in our family, knew all the presidents and vice presidents in order.
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