Barbara, a retired Professor from the Borough of Manhattan Community College located in New York City, has spent most of her life teaching. A native New Yorker, she attended Morgan State University for a B.S. degree in Physical Education and Herbert Lehman College for her mater's degree in Education.

After retirement, she studied book binding and organized her iddeas into a business named Adzua Art Associates. In 2013 Barbara authored her first children's book and has to date written nine fictional stories set in 12th century West Africa. The Princess Kamala series, comprised of seven connected stories, exposes young minds to a period of history that is not the educational focus in our schools. Within the pages of her books, youth may experience an emotional journey of anger, frustration, blame, forgieness, accomplishment, and love.They are wonderful picture stories that stimulate the visual while teaching good moral values. Barbara's goal is to stimulate young people to seek more information, that they can use for building blocks of self-pride as they create and organize their own ideas.