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Early life and education
Boasberg was born in San Francisco, California, in 1963, to parents Sarah Margaret (née Szold) and Emanuel Boasberg III.[3][4] Boasberg is Jewish.[5]
The family moved to Washington, D.C. when Boasberg’s father accepted a position in Sargent Shriver‘s Office of Economic Opportunity, a “Great Society” agency responsible for implementing and administering many of Lyndon B. Johnson‘s War on Poverty programs.[6][7]
Boasberg graduated in 1981 from St. Albans School in Washington, D.C.[8] He then attended Yale University, where he was a member of the undergraduate society Skull and Bones[9] and, at 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) tall, played forward for the Yale Bulldogs men’s basketball team.[10] He graduated in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude.