Ady Barkan is the founder and co-executive director of Be A Hero, a political advocacy organization fighting for health care justice. He was diagnosed with A.L.S. in 2016 and the author of Eyes to ...

For Ady, just getting up has become a chore harder than most of us could imagine. In 2016, Ady was diagnosed with ALS. Even as the disease has robbed him of movement and even the capacity to speak ...

Ady Barkan, an attorney and liberal activist whose story was featured in the 2021 documentary “Not Going Quietly,” has died.He was 39. His wife, Rachael Scarborough King, shared the news on X ...

Ady Barkan, an activist for single-payer healthcare and a patient in the late stages of ALS, has opened up the first Congressional hearing on “Medicare for All” with a passionate speech urging ...

Back in November we told you about Earthrace – the distinctive trimaran powerboat – joining the Sea Shepherd organisation as a so-called "stealthed support vessel" named the Ady Gil ...

Ady Barkan, Influential ALS Advocate and Subject in ‘Not Going Quietly,’ Dies at 39. Barkan, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2016, advocated for the expansion of healthcare rights.