TIMMY PATRICK FOR FREE

The road ahead is no doubt uncertain, and will have many hurdles for everyone in Timmy’s family. The fractures that Timmy suffered on his spine resulted in a loss of all feeling below his midsection, including the use of his legs. He suffered multiple broken bones and a collapsed lung, but the most severe and life altering injury, was the one to his spine. What started as an inspiring motorcycle ride around Lake Michigan, ended in a tragedy that would change Timmy and his family‘s lives forever.Īs a result of the accident, Timmy, a 41-year-old father of three girls (ages 9, 6, and 2) had to have emergency back surgery, and was in and out of the ICU for four weeks.

TIMMY PATRICK FOR FREE

He currently serves as Board Chair for Free the Slaves, a leading global NGO in the fight against modern slavery, and is a longtime advisory board member and creative collaborator with the Tony Award-winning American Repertory Theater.Ĭlick here to see a full list of Timothy McCarthy's courses.While riding his motorcycle on the morning of September 29, 2018, Timmy Ryan was struck by a driver, who failed to yield at a stop sign. A respected leader in the LGBTQ+ community, he was a founding member of Barack Obama's National LGBT Leadership Council, gave expert testimony to the Pentagon Comprehensive Working Group on the repeal of 'Don’t Ask, Don't Tell,' and was part of the first-ever LGBTQ delegation from the United States to Palestine/Israel.

As founding director of Harvard’s Alternative Spring Break Church Rebuilding Program, he spent fifteen years organizing hundreds of students to help rebuild Black churches destroyed in racist arson attacks throughout the United States. Inspired by the activism and organizing of his student years, McCarthy has devoted his life to public service and social justice. McCarthy was also honored with the 2022 Outstanding Alumnus Award from the Philips Brooks House Association. In May 2020, amidst the COVID pandemic, Kennedy School graduates selected him to deliver the faculty address, Precedented Bravery, at their virtual Class Day ceremony. McCarthy was one of ten Harvard faculty members whose teaching was first showcased in the Instructional Moves Project. Carballo Award, the Kennedy School's highest teaching honor. Twice named one of Harvard Crimson's 'Professors of the Year,' McCarthy has received many awards for his commitment to students, including the 2015 Dean’s Award for Exceptional Leadership on Diversity and Inclusion and the 2019 Manuel C. In June 2019, McCarthy was guest editor for The Nation's historic Reclaiming Stonewall 50 forum, and was creative director, head writer, and lead interviewer for the PBS television special True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs, which aired in June 2022. He is a frequent media commentator whose work has been featured in Salon, Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, Pangyrus, Gay and Lesbian Review, The Nation, NPR, Al Jazeera, and BBC, as well as several documentary films, including A Reckoning in Boston and Building a Bridge. He is author or editor of five books, including Reckoning with History: Unfinished Stories of American Freedom and Stonewall’s Children: Living Queer History in an Age of Liberation, Loss, and Love, forthcoming from the New Press. The adopted only son and grandson of public school teachers and factory workers, McCarthy graduated with honors in history and literature from Harvard College and earned his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. He has taught in Clemente since its founding in 2001.

McCarthy is the Stanley Paterson Professor of American History and Academic Co-Director of the Boston Clemente Course, a free college humanities course for lower income adults in Dorchester and co-recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal from President Obama. A historian of politics and social movements, he teaches courses on equity and justice, brave communication and leadership, and race, gender, and sexuality. Kennedy School of Government, where he was the first openly gay faculty member and still teaches the school’s only course on LGBTQ matters, he is faculty affiliate at the Center for Public Leadership. At the Graduate School of Education, he is core faculty in both the Equity and Opportunity Foundations Curriculum and the new online Master’s Program in Education Leadership. Timothy McCarthy is an award-winning scholar, educator, and activist who has taught at Harvard University for more than two decades. Degree: Ph.D., Columbia University, (2006)Įmail: įaculty Coordinator: Cherise Kenner Profile

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