Remembering Elliot Harmon, 1981-2021
Summary
As mentioned on EFF’s website, “We will deeply miss Elliot’s clever mind, powerful pen, generous heart, and expansive kindness. He used those debates with me to find the underlying truth so we could improve what we did every day at CC.” “Elliot was passionate, uncannily insightful, and a joy to work with personally and professionally. I’ve seen some of the EFF staff talk about how good he was as a manager of their activism team, and of course he was, he really cared about setting others up for success.” “He cared a lot about what he was doing, whether it was going to help, whether people involved were behaving with integrity, and it’s a mindset that could be harsh and humorless but instead he was one of the most hilarious people you’d ever meet, cracking quietly devastating jokes, sharing bits of weird and delightful knowledge about everything that he carried in his head. I remember him spending a lot of time trying to understand the licensing changes so he could explain and advocate for them to others.” “When I think about Elliot, the primary word that comes to mind is exuberance. I think that detail helps reveal why he almost had an aura about him, like he was in touch with some things in life that many people overlook.” “I did not know Elliot that well, though we did socialize some during our brief time overlapping at CC.