First-year student dies in suicide | Light & Verity
Her death puts renewed focus on mental health resources at Yale. Rachael Shaw-Rosenbaum ’24, who died in March, was “unapologetically herself.” View full image The Yale community and friends and family of first-year Rachael Shaw-Rosenbaum ’24 mourned her death by suicide in March. Shaw-Rosenbaum, a student in Branford College from Anchorage, Alaska, was remembered for her passion for justice: she was an ardent debater who wanted to study constitutional law and eventually end up on the Supreme Court. At Yale, where she was in the Directed Studies program, she had already made an...