Thread by @PolicyPitts

I need to tell you all about my sister Sarah, the badass below. She was biking home in Brooklyn early Monday morning, hit by a bus, and killed. But I want to talk about her life.

For the last 2.5 years Sarah worked in appeals for @BrooklynDA where her passion was sentencing reform. She traveled New York visiting people in prison, and often people got parole and a second chance at life because of Sarah. DA's statement here:

https://twitter.com/BrooklynDA/status/1303042082265853953

At night, after a full day of advocacy within the government, she volunteered with @riders4rights, Black Lives Matter, and Occupy City Hall. If you marched in a protest for racial justice in Brooklyn this year, Sarah was on a bike ahead of you, blocking traffic to keep you safe.

This summer she took a month "vacation" with my niece and nephew. We stayed in cabins in the Catskills and North Carolina, where she spent her day writing briefs and her nights playing Ultimate Werewolf and Dungeons and Dragons with the kids.

Re D&D, she had never played before but she wanted to because she was curious about everything. In the first game we played the party got scared that there might be an ambush on the trail and spent an hour trying to climb trees and jump from limb to limb.

Their rolls failed every time and they kept falling. FOR AN HOUR. It was the funniest thing I've ever seen.

We went hiking a lot this summer, and she joined us when she could make time. On the drives to the hikes she decided to introduce the kids to standup by playing them @TigNotaro's cancer set. They are 9.

She also played them 8 hours of @ComedyBangBang's Time Bobby series, which required explaining who Andrew Lloyd Webber is, that @PFTompkins is a different person, and why saying "iiiiiits been" is funny.

She had a stash of every flavor of marshmallow peeps, including pancakes and syrup which she insisted was good.

She played basketball in high school, and when her knees gave out she became manager of the @trinitycollege men's team and won the Larry Silver Award for her outstanding contributions as a student to the to Trinity athletic community

She graduated law school while in recovery in @eastlancsaa and volunteering in the @pennlaw legal clinic. To pass the bar she had to explain how she could be in AA and still be a good lawyer. Her character spoke to her fitness and she was admitted.

I can't capture a life as big as hers words, but hopefully this gives you a piece of it. She had more purpose and joy in 2020 than anyone I know, and I think more than at any other point in her life. That makes the time of her death better and so so much worse.

She would want all of us to continue the work and keep her spirit alive through it. It was a great life, if too brief, and we should all hope to have the impact she did in her 35 years.