“Author, artist, and educator,” Barbara said she drew from all aspects of her education, and professional and personal experiences, when she wrote her award-winning narrative, Second Chance Ranch, about the journey of a caregiver. The book was endorsed by Hospice and is dedicated to the organization. Her second book, The Holding Pen--A Collection of Unusual Love Prose is an anthology of women struggling in their relationships. Her third book, Baby Boomer Men Looking for Love, written specifically for mature men, is in its second printing.

A bond trader for more than 20 years working in the World Trade Center in New York City, Barbara became interested in human behavior and spent several years at New York Medical College, in the School of Public Health, at Westchester Medical Center, creating preventive programs for organizations and community partnerships. With a graduate degree in Public Health (MPH) in Behavioral Science and Health Promotion, and a graduate degree in Social Work from Arizona State University (MSW), she trained with the AZ Attorney General's office in mediation. She uses mediation techniques in family conflict resolution and partnership disputes.

Using the 'strengths perspective' and the bio-psycho-social model, she strives to empower her clients--individuals and corporate entities--to understand behavior, boundaries and barriers, and to develop healthy, mutually respectful, positive and satisfactory relationships and partnerships.

Believing that every aspect of her life has value, Ms. Kennedy quotes writer Lillian Smith: