![]() Carballo Award, the Kennedy School’s highest teaching honor. McCarthy has received many awards for his commitment to students, including the 2015 HKS Dean’s Award for Exceptional Leadership on Diversity and Inclusion and the 2019 Manuel C. Twice named one of Harvard Crimson’s “Professors of the Year,” Dr. McCarthy was guest editor for The Nation’s historic Reclaiming Stonewall 50 forum. 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, which premiered at the Boston Independent Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival this summer. A noted historian of politics and social movements, he is author or editor of six books, including Reckoning with History: Unfinished Stories of American Freedom (Columbia UP, 2021) and Stonewall’s Children: Living Queer History in an Age of Liberation, Loss, and Love, forthcoming from the New Press. McCarthy graduated with honors in History and Literature from Harvard College and earned his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. The adopted only son and grandson of public school teachers and factory workers, Dr. He has taught in Clemente since its founding in 2001. McCarthy is the Stanley Paterson Professor of American History and Academic Director emeritus in 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. At the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was the first openly gay/queer faculty member and still teaches the school’s only course on LGBTQ matters, he is Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Public Leadership and Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.ĭr. ![]() At the Harvard Graduate School of Education, he is Core Faculty in both the Foundations Curriculum and the Education Leadership, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship Program. Timothy Patrick McCarthy is an award-winning scholar, teacher, and activist. Taubman Center for State and Local Government.Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.Thank you in advance for your support and prayers. The more people we reach, the more we can help Timmy and Stacy. In addition, please feel free to share this link with anyone you think might be inclined to help as well. Any amount that you can donate would be greatly appreciated to assist Timmy, Stacy and their three girls with the substantial financial challenges that lie ahead. While no one can change the past, we can all help them with their future. He and Stacy are eternally grateful for any help that you can give to assist them on this difficult journey. ![]() ![]() a wheelchair lift, vehicle, etc.) that Timmy will need to adjust to his new life.Īlthough their lives were changed forever, Timmy and his family remain fully committed to his recovery and adapting to their new reality. The other substantial financial challenge will be the significant ongoing therapy and medical equipment (i.e. One of the biggest financial challenges that they will face, will be adapting their home to be wheelchair accessible. However, given the gravity of the situation, they are aware that accepting help from others is the only way that they will be able to get through the challenges that lie ahead. However, despite all of the obvious challenges, Timmy is committed to recovery, and motivated to getting back to being the father, husband, friend and family member that we all know and love.Īnyone who knows Timmy and Stacy, knows that they would rather help others than receive help. ![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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