Currently a professor in communications at Marine Corps University in Quantico, VA., Barbara was an international correspondent for over 20 years. She reported from 46 countries, and was based in Paris, France for 16 years and London, England, for 2 years before returning home to cover Washington, D.C.

During the Iraq War, Barbara was an embedded war correspondent with the U.S. Marine Corps.

Barbara and her husband, Tim Kennedy, are NHA life members.  Barbara’s uncle, Wilson “Brownie” Brownell, was one of the founding members of NHA; he was responsible for introducing Barbara and Tim to a plant-based diet and the NHA.