ABOUT

Shortly after graduating law school in 2012, Chasen began drafting simple wills and trusts for friends and family to help them plan for their futures. Not long after, he started his first term of non-profit board service with the American Civil Liberties Union.

 

During this time, Chasen grew interested in individuals’ rights related to end-of-life decisions and was appointed to perform committee work crafting policy on physician-assisted aid-in-dying. Using critical data from Oregon, the first state to legalize aid-in-dying in 1997, and also Washington (2009) and Montana (2009), a fine balance was struck between compassion and safety.

 

The ACLU helped advocate for legalization of aid-in-dying based on that work, the end result of which ultimately helped more jurisdictions empower their people with the last great leap of life: Vermont (2013), California (2016), Colorado (2016), Washington, D.C. (2017), Hawai’i (2019), New Jersey (2019), Maine (2019), New Mexico (2021), and more may be on the way soon.

 

Since concluding his time with the ACLU and moving to Seattle in 2018, Chasen has grown to love helping small to mid-sized non-profits achieve their goals. In volunteering his time helping rowing organizations in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska become more sustainable and better protected, he enjoys community and a sense of fulfillment.

 

Chasen now serves as Secretary on the Everett Rowing Association board of directors, and became a founding board member serving as Secretary of Alaska Creative Economies in 2023.