Author · Advocate · Founder
Adrian
Adair
I am the founder of Heartbeat Forward and a dedicated voice for children born with congenital heart disease. My work lives at the intersection of storytelling, advocacy, and the belief that visibility saves lives.
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In his own words
I didn't come to this cause through personal pain. I came to it through something harder to explain. A moral weight I could not set down.
— Adrian Adair
What Adrian Does
Three areas of focus01
Author
Three books written directly for the CHD community — for families, caregivers, and the children themselves. Published under the Teneritas imprint.
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Advocate
Public education, storytelling, and institutional collaboration to bring CHD out of the shadows and into the national conversation where it belongs.
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Founder
Heartbeat Forward is a federally recognized 501(c)(3) delivering care packages to children in cardiac units and funding heart surgeries for children in need.
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Latest Book
The Quiet
The Quiet
Majority
Why Congenital Heart Disease Deserves to Be Seen
One in every one hundred children is born with a heart that works differently. They are not a rare footnote. They are the quiet majority.
This book is an act of witness — for every family that has carried something enormous, often in silence, without the language or recognition their love deserves. It is Adrian's debut, and it is dedicated to making CHD impossible to ignore.
The Mission
Why this work matters
Congenital heart disease affects millions of children. It is the most common birth defect in the world. And it is largely invisible to the public.
My goal is to change that — through books, through Heartbeat Forward, through a podcast, through every conversation that brings a child's story into the light. Not because I was born into this cause. But because I could not look away from it.
Someone has to look at what CHD families carry and say: I see you. I will make sure others do too. That is what this work is. That is what it will always be.
The Long-Term VisionHeartbeat Forward
A federally recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Los Angeles, dedicated to CHD awareness, care packages for children in cardiac units, and funding heart surgeries for children in need.