POLITICAL ACTIVIST, WRITER

“Sleep not but thrive
So shalt thou live”

So began Nan Aron’s self reflections in Bandersnach. After Scarsdale High came Yale University and Yale Law School and some years in Civil Rights Law and teaching at Georgetown and George Washington University Law Schools.

Political activist.
Ethan’s  Senior quotation in the school yearbook gives little hint about his very serious academic side.  “Life is just one big joke. It was never meant to be taken seriously.”  He taught at Harvard and Princeton and then left the academic world, becoming the Founder and Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance.  Nadelmann is regarded as the most articulate spokesman  for drug policy reform in the U.S.