Eyes to the Wind - A Memoir of Love and Death, Hope and Resistance

In this inspirational and moving memoir, activist Barkan explores his life with ALS and how his diagnosis gave him a profound new understanding of his commitment to social justice for all.

About the author

Ady Barkan was a social justice activist who built three programs at The Center for Popular Democracy: the Be A Hero and Fed Up campaigns and the Local Progress network. He was a law clerk to the Hon. Shira A. Scheindlin in the Southern District of New York and prior to that he was a Liman Fellow with Make the Road New York, where he represented low-wage workers seeking to recover unpaid wages and obtain safe and dignified working conditions. He graduated from Yale Law School and Columbia College, and is the author of Eyes to the Wind: A Memoir of Love and Death, Hope and Resistance. He passed away in 2023 at the age of thirty-nine and is survived by his wife Rachael and their two children.

Product details

• Authors: Ady Barkan, Ady Barkan
• Assisted by: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Foreword), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Foreword)
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781982111557
• ISBN: 978-1-982111-55-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 249 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Autobiography: general, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Political activism, Social Work, Social welfare & social services, Political activism / Political engagement, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, Social welfare, social policy and social services