Reising serves those who serve
Harvard Law School (HLS) student Jesse Reising was eager to start his career as an officer in the U.S. Marines Corps upon his graduation from Yale — until his dream was derailed by a violent collision as he made a tackle during the 2010 Yale-Harvard football game, resulting in partial paralysis of his right arm. Medically disqualified from the Marines (he’d attended Officer Candidates School during college), Reising decided to serve those who serve in the military. Last summer, at Yale, he and two friends launched Operation Opportunity, with an initiative called the Warrior-Scholar Project, a two-week “academic boot camp” to help veterans transition from the military to college. Nine veterans from four of the five branches of the military participated in the intensive workshop, attending classes on writing and reading, working closely with academic tutors, and enjoying nightly dinner discussions. Their instructors included Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Lewis Gaddis and...