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/Twitter Wednesday, noting that Barkan “died from complications of ALS.” “You probably knew Ady as a healthcare activist. But more importantly he was a wonderful dad and my life partner for 18 years,” she wrote. “Ady fought for the 24/7 care he needed to be home with us until the end of his life.
In 2018, he co-founded Be A Hero, a nonprofit organization that aims to expand access to healthcare. The organization’s co-executive director Jamila Headley shared in a statement, “After his diagnosis, Ady chose to use the time he had left fighting to create a country where health care is treated as a human right. He knew he was building something that would outlast him, and his relentless campaigning made him one of the most prominent health care advocates in the nation.
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