Is a registered architect in New Jersey with a small residential practice in the Princeton area. Barbie received both an AB and a MArch in Architecture from Princeton University. She has more recently scaled back her business and now spends half her time volunteering in the fields of education, conservation and the environment.
Barbie serves on the board of Middlebury College. She served on the Board of Princeton Day School for seventeen years in various roles culminating as the Board Chair from 2012-17. She is currently an emerita trustee of the school. She serves as Chair of the Board of the Watershed Institute in Pennington NJ, a regional environmental group dedicated to keeping water clean, safe and healthy. She is on the Princeton University Advisory Council. She also serves on the Chappaquiddick Advisory Committee of the Trustees of the Reservations.
Barbie is a passionate amateur landscape designer and gardener. She has designed extensive perennial and vegetable gardens at her family’s homes. She also manages woodlands, meadows, and fields on their 120 acre farm in Hopewell NJ, and coastal ponds, wetlands, sandy moraines and native fields on their properties on Chappaquiddick. Other interests and hobbies include cooking (using the produce from her gardens and chickens), travel, hiking, art and architectural history, and collecting.