Barbara does audience research and database development and creates both digests of research and policy briefs for SC.

She has written extensively for daily, weekly and monthly newspapers, including stints as a reporter for The Pittsburgh Press in Pennsylvania, and editor of The Independent newsweekly in Durham, N.C. She helped launch The Philanthropy Journal of North Carolina, a monthly newspaper covering that state’s burgeoning nonprofit sector. At The Independent, she specialized in reporting on health care issues, garnering an Association of Alternative Newsweeklies award for a story on the debate over a for-profit Blue Cross. She has also won awards for investigative reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists and the North Carolina Press Association, as well as a Western Pennsylvania Golden Quill award for newspaper column writing.

More recently, she worked as senior editor at the Center for New York City Affairs, a public policy organization at The New School in Manhattan. She edited the Center’s Child Welfare Watch publication and broke stories on the progress of reform in the city’s foster care and disabilities services systems, and the impact of the state’s crackdown on Medicaid spending. Her freelance work has also been published by The New York Times, Alternet and in the book, Notes from the Underground, a collection of the best stories of the alternative press.

Barbara holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a BA in Communications from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

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