Ross Barkan talks about his political future
Can he make the leap from scribe to senator?
Ross Barkan is looking to change jobs and go from writing newspaper articles to writing legislation.
Barkan, an award-winning political journalist who has held lawmakers’ feet to the fire in such publications as the Village Voice, The Guardian, The New York Observer and Gothamist, announced this week in an article on Medium that he is running for the state Senate in the 22nd Senate District in 2018.
In a phone interview with the Brooklyn Eagle, Barkan, 27, who was born and raised in Bay Ridge and still calls it home, discussed his life and the issues he will be talking about on the campaign trail.