She has worked as a senior correspondent for National Public Radio covering a variety of beats, including business and economics, education, welfare reform and 9/11. She has won the National Press Club’s Best Consumer Journalism Award and Lincoln University’s Unity Award in Media. As the senior producer of NPR’s Talk of the Nation/Science Friday for its first three years, Barbara guided the call-in talk show in its coverage of science topics ranging from the AIDS crisis to string theory. Barbara now concentrates on writing long-form articles for CQ Researcher. She has won two Front Page Awards for CQ, including one for a 2008 CQ Researcher on the state of indigent defense. Twitter: @BJMantel