Barbara was born at Mather Air Force Base in Sacramento, CA, and has mostly lived in St. Joseph since 1992. Graduating from Central High School in 2004, she received a Bachelor of Communication from the University of Missouri in Columbia in 2008. After living in Kansas for a few years after college and working in marketing for Enterprise Rent-A-Car, she moved back to St. Joseph and now works for Altec Industries on their Technical Sales team. She recently completed her Masters in Business Administration at Northwest Missouri State University in 2019. She married her husband, Michael, in 2020. She has two daughters, Josilin and Liberty, and two furbabies, Percy and Karma. Barbara is passionate about many issues (women and children, literacy, mental health and wellness, environmentalism/
