During a section discussion in the famed Harvard course âJusticeâ this fall, Suuba M. Demby â22 remembers her teaching fellow â Thomas B. âTommyâ Raskin â asking, âShouldnât we all be doing as much as we can to help those less fortunate than us?â
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. 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 âimpressed and taken aback by how authentic he was as a person.â