Barbara Becker is a bestselling writer, international human rights advocate, and interfaith leader. She is the author of the Gold Nautilus Award-winning HEARTWOOD: The Art of Living with the End in Mind, which Katie Couric Media featured in their “Books that will Change Your Life.” Notably, Barbara’s writing has captured the attention of influential figures such as Gloria Steinem, Sharon Salzberg, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege, and bestselling authors Jonathan Haidt, Susan Cain, and StoryCorps’ Dave Isay.
Barbara has worked with the United Nations, Human Rights First, the Ms. Foundation for Women, and the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, and has participated in a delegation of Zen Peacemakers and Lakota elders in the Black Hills of South Dakota. For over a decade, she taught a rising generation of social change leaders at Columbia University and the New School. She is an ordained interfaith minister who bridges the sacred and the secular, and has sat with hundreds of people at the end of their lives.
