Barb has lived in south Wallingford since 1992. She's a lady with a lopper and a ladder as lead volunteer for the Burke-Gilman Trail Urban Orchard Stewards, a City Fruit-sponsored group that cares for public fruit trees along the Burke-Gilman Trail between the University Bridge and Fremont. Since 2013 she has worked for City Fruit as the Orchard Steward Coordinator. Her mission is to wrangle and train volunteers to care for fruit trees on public land in Seattle. Barb was Director of Sustainability for the John Stanford International School in 2009-2011 and in 2012-13 was the parent representative on the JSIS Green Team. Barb helped the school attain Level 3 certification as a Washington Green School. She started the Green Team at Hamilton Int'l Middle School in 2014, and they achieved Level 1 Washington Green Schools certification in Waste and Recycling in June 2014.