Perry O’Brien (he/him)

Perry is the Senior Campaigns Director of Common Defense. Perry has over ten years of experience as an organizer and strategic communicator in the labor and antiwar movements. He is a U.S. Army veteran who served in Afghanistan and was Organizing Director of CIR/SEIU, a national physicians’ union. His writing has appeared in publications like The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the Huffington Post, and his first novel is forthcoming from Random House.