Fordham Law student, William Pickering Jones ’20 lost his battle to addiction in December 2018 at the age of 27. His impact on Fordham Law will continue with The Drug Policy Reform Group, which he and fellow classmate, Lura Chamberlain, founded before his death.
While at Fordham, William, along with the same classmate who wrote the letter, Lura Chamberlain, founded the Drug Policy Reform Group. Its stated purpose is to foster intellectual discussion, build community relationships, and support meaningful policy reform around legal and sociopolitical issues relating to the supply and demand of illegal, addictive, and/or consciousness-altering substances: treatment options for substance users; and harm reduction efforts on an individual, community, and national scale.
“I don’t know many people who would rush to a stranger’s aid without hesitation, and even fewer who can say they’ve saved a life,” Chamberlain wrote in her letter, “but William was one of them.”