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Jeff Rasley is the author of thirteen books; the most recent is A Pickleball Soap
Opera: Love, Murder, and Pickleball. He has published 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 100 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 post Katrina. Jeff is the founder and former president of the Basa Village
Foundation USA, which raises money for culturally sensitive development work in the
Basa area of Nepal. He also served a term as president of Scientech, which promotes
science education. Jeff is a director of five other nonprofit organizations. In December,
2020 the Rasleys founded the Jeff and Alicia Rasley Internship Program for the ACLU of
Indiana.

Jeff is a partner in the eBook publishing company Midsummer Books and
provides writer-coaching services. He is U.S. liaison for the Nepal-based Himalayan
expedition company, Adventure GeoTreks Ltd. He has taught classes for IUPUI
Continuing Ed. Program, Indiana Writers Center, and Butler and Marian Universities.
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 outdoorsman 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.

You can contact Jeff here:
[e-mail]
www.jeffreyrasley.com

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