Jeff Rasley
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Jeff Rasley

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Jeff Rasley is the author of fourteen books; the most recent is A Hitchhiker’s Big Adventure: On the road from Indiana to Key West and New Orleans for Mardi Gras 1972. He has authored numerous articles in academic and mainstream periodicals, including Newsweek, Chicago Magazine, ABA Journal, Family Law Review, The Journal of Communal Societies, and Friends Journal. He is an award-winning photographer and his pictures taken in the Himalayas and Caribbean and Pacific islands have been published in several journals. He has appeared as a featured guest on over 200 radio and podcast programs. Rasley has engaged in social activism and philanthropic efforts from an early age. In high school he co-founded the Goshen Walk for Hunger. In law school he was an advocate for renters' rights as the leader of the first rent strike in Indiana, and he served as a lobbyist and president of the Indianapolis Tenants Association. As an attorney for Legal Services Organization he was lead counsel on two class action suits on behalf of prisoners which resulted in judgments requiring the construction of two new jails in Central Indiana. Jeff founded free legal clinics at two inner-city churches. He was the lead plaintiff in a class action requiring the clean-up of the White River after it was polluted by an industrial chemical spill. He spent five days working for NOLA Habitat for Humanity after Katrina. Jeff is the president of the Basa Village Foundation and of the Scientech Foundation of Indiana, and he is a board member of the Indianapolis Peace and Justice Center and of the University of Chicago Athletics Hall of Fame. Jeff and Alicia Rasley funded the Rasley International Summer Research Scholarship for college students at the University of Chicago, the Jeff and Alicia Rasley Internship Program for the ACLU of Indiana, and the Janice Stutz Rasley Endowed Scholarship for Journalism at Goshen College. Jeff has served as a trustee or director for many for-profit and nonprofit organizations, including Earlham College, the Friends Educational Trust, Visiting Nurse Service, and University of Chicago Alumni Board. Jeff is a partner in Midsummer Books Publishing and the US representative of the Nepal-based expedition company Adventure GeoTreks Ltd. He has taught a class about philanthropy at Butler University and Marian University and memoir writing at Indiana Writers Center. Jeff is a graduate of the University of Chicago, A.B. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, All-Academic All-State Football Team and letter winner in swimming and football; Indiana University School of Law, J.D. cum laude, Moot Court and Indiana Law Review; Christian Theological Seminary, M.Div. magna cum laude, co-valedictorian and Faculty Award Scholar. He has been admitted to the Indiana, U.S. District Court, and U.S. Supreme Court Bars. For chairing the Indiana-Tennessee Civic Memorial Commission Rasley and the Commission received Proclamations of Salutation from the Governors of Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Pennsylvania and he was made an honorary Lieutenant Colonel Aide-de-Camp of the Alabama State Militia, a Kentucky Colonel and honorary Citizen of Tennessee. He was given a Key to the City of Indianapolis for serving as an intern to Mayor Hudnut and preparing a report on the safety conditions of all Indy Parks. Rasley has received the Man of the Year award from the Arthur Jordan YMCA and the Alumni Service Award from the University of Chicago. Jeff is an avid outdoors-man and recreational athlete. He leads trekking-mountaineering expeditions in Nepal and has solo-kayaked around several Pacific island groups. He also loves to read and considers completing Marcel Proust’s 3600 page Remembrance of Things Past as great an adventure as climbing Himalayan peaks and solo-kayaking Pacific islands. He is married to Alicia Rasley, an English professor and the author of historical romances and writing craft books. Alicia is a RITA Award winner and her novel The Year She Fell was an Amazon-Kindle best-seller. Son James is an officer in the National Guard, and Andrew is a tech supervisor with a film and TV production company in LA.
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