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RADIO HOST

In 2001, Barnes hosted a special series, Moving America Forward, on radio station WALLE 990 AM for the North American Broadcasting Company in New England. Her guests included Dr. Wilton Anderson, Harvard University graduate and former New York City Middle School Principal and authority on American Education, Dr. Jonathan Sarna, Professor and authority on Jewish Religion, Brandeis University, Walson, Massachusetts, Mr. John L. Horton, Employment and Restoration Coordinator for the Restorative Justice Program at the Norfolk, Virginia Juvenile Court, and Mr. Bernard H. Scott, corporate specialist, who spent almost thirty years working in Corporate America and was employed by IBM twenty-six-and-a-half years.

Media Guest

Barnes has been guest twice on national Tony Brown Journal: she discussed Alex Haley’s Roots in 1979 and Everyday Racism in 2002. Barnes was a popular guest on more than 200 radio programs at stations, located from the East coast to Hawaii and from Montreal to Florida. Also, Barnes has been a frequent guest on the local South Hampton Roads, Virginia (Norfolk and Portsmouth), radio and television programs and a regular contributor to the Norfolk weekly New Journal and Guide and the daily Virginian-Pilot newspapers, in the Norfolk, Virginia area, where she lives.

Lecture Audiences

Barnes’s lecture audiences included the Moral Rearmament Conference in Caux, Switzerland, Southwestern Bell National Corporation Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, high schools, colleges and universities, feminist state meeting, teachers’ groups, county-wide school teachers’ opening school meeting session, civic groups, and Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Holiness churches’ Sunday Morning church women services.

Selected Consultant Opportunities

Reviewed an article for Harvard University's Medical School's Journal, Social Science and Medecine," 1995.

Reviewed a proposal for The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Murray Research Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, 2000.

Reviewed African American doctoral candidates’ funding proposals for the Ford Foundation New York, New York, 1972.

Served as family consultant about how to curtail the growing number of black unwed mothers for the Rockefeller Foundation, New York, New York, 1980s.

Consultant to the Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida, Tampa, about How to Get More African American students to attend the university, 1990's.

Served as consultant to the Big Ten Universities about ways to help teachers at Historically Black Colleges, 1980.

Reviewed proposals for several government agencies, including the National Science Foundation, Minority Institutions Science Improvement Program, Comprehensive Assistance to Undergraduate Science Education, Women in Science,and College Science Instrumentation Program