Holly Near (born June 6, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and activist who began performing publicly at age eight and later studied theatre at UCLA. After early roles in TV shows like The Mod Squad and films like Slaughterhouse-Five, she became a prominent anti-war activist, joining the FTA Tour in 1971 with Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland and writing "It Could Have Been Me" in response to the Kent State shootings. In 1972, she founded Redwood Records, one of the first independent record labels run by a woman, to promote politically conscious artists, and she collaborated with legends like Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, and Bonnie Raitt. Her song "Singing for Our Lives" was included in the Unitarian Universalist hymnal, and she wrote an autobiography, Fire in the Rain, Singer in the Storm, which she later adapted into a one-woman show. Still active as of 2019 with a discography of 29 albums, she released a new recording titled 2018 and continues to perform at events like the March for Women's Lives and GALA Choruses Festivals.