February 11, 1993 - May 9, 2012
On May 9th, 2012, the world lost Emily Benatar to bacterial meningitis*. Her life is a reminder to live every moment fully with a sense of humor and to be kind to one another.
This website is a place for those who are missing Emily to be able to hear her voice and see her being her funny self, and see some of the many amazing things she created. It's also a place to share the Honoring Emily projects we do each year.
*Meningococcal disease is a bacterial infection that can affect the blood (sepsis) or the lining of the brain and spinal cord (bacterial meningitis).
The story behind the 2024 Honoring Emily with Art project started in October 2023. Lisa was walking with a friend and they were talking about the author, Michael Lewis, whose new book had just come out: Going Infinite, about Sam Bankman-Fried and cryptocurrency. One of the things that came up was that Lewis’ 19-year-old daughter, Dixie, was killed in a car accident in May of 2021, which was shortly after he had started working on the book. Lisa's friend shared that she had heard an interview with Michael Lewis on the topic of the book, and that the interviewer brought up the loss of his daughter.
