Team :: Executive Director

Adam Garber

Executive Director

For nearly twenty years, Adam has led public policy efforts to ensure everyone can live healthily and safely in their communities. Since leading CeaseFirePA in 2020, he has strategically expanded the Commonwealth’s gun violence prevention advocacy organization’s efforts to ensure everyone can live free from gun violence. That includes securing more than $200 million to fund community violence-prevention programs, moving the first gun safety bills through the PA House in years, and developing CeaseFirePA’s collaboration with 130-plus member-activists, including veterans, physicians, clergy, and violence survivors under the Common Agenda to End Gun Violence.

Before joining CeaseFirePA, he worked to protect everyone from dangers in the marketplace at U.S. PIRG where his independent investigations into toxic toys, dangerous cars, contaminated food and other threats received national coverage on CBS This Morning, The New York Times, and elsewhere. Prior to that, he spent more than a decade advocating for clean air and water in Pennsylvania at the local, state and national level. 

Adam lives in South Philadelphia with his wife and young daughter, Elonie, where he enjoys studying history, exploring the city, and cooking.