Writing about oneself in third person is awkward.
Barbara Chen is a nonprofit consultant and writer who has held major communications roles at the NYPD, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Columbia University. She currently works for the Annenberg Foundation and previously was at UCLA School of Law.
Her prior clients include the 30x30 Initiative to increase the number of women in law enforcement; and “To Protect, Serve and Understand,” an empathy-through-improvisation workshop and public performance by and for civilians and police, created by the Brooklyn-based Irondale Ensemble Project.
Formerly an ABC News producer and New York chapter vice president of the national Asian American Journalists Association, Barbara is an alumna of Columbia Business School's Police Management Institute, the Minority Writers Seminar hosted by the Freedom Forum Institute at Vanderbilt University, and California State University Fullerton, where she was commencement speaker for the College of Communications in 1999, and inducted into its Alumni Wall of Fame in 2017.
Barbara is married to the journalist Sam Lubell. They live with their son and two dogs in Santa Monica, California.
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“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.” — Gustave Flaubert
“I guess it’s obvious, I also like to write.”
“Simple minds discuss people. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas.” — assorted authors
“Round here they call me Big Pun.”
“A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.” — E.B. White
“Sometimes I rhyme slow, sometimes I rhyme quick. ”