Barbarann graduated from Cardinal O’Hara High School in 1984 and from Harvard University four years later with a degree in Government. At Harvard, Barbarann played on the basketball team, winning two Ivy League titles and was named to the All-Ivy League team four times. She then extended her basketball career, playing overseas in Ireland and Germany. Before moving back to the area, she travelled extensively throughout North and Central America, Western Europe and Southern Africa.

In 2008, Barbarann received Bank of America’s Local Hero Excellence Initiative Award for organizing the grassroots single-stream recycling movement in our Township; money from the grant awarded has gone towards buying trees planted in various parks and in parochial, private and district schools in our Township.