Ady Barkan is a social justice activist and cofounder of the Be A Hero PAC, one of the nation’s leading health care advocacy organizations. In 2019, Barkan interviewed nearly every leading Democratic candidate for President as part of a groundbreaking series on health care, life, and legacy. In 2018, he and Be A Hero raised over $4 million in small dollar donations against Sen. Susan Collins during the fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court. Barkan was a law clerk to the Hon. Shira A. Scheindlin in the Southern District of New York and a Liman Fellow with Make the Road New York. He graduated from Yale Law School and Columbia College, and built two programs at the Center for Popular Democracy: Fed Up and Local Progress. He lives with his wife Rachael and their young son Carl in Santa Barbara, California. His book, Eyes to the Wind: A Memoir of Love and Death, Hope and Resistance, was published in September by Atria Books.