Barrie believes in the power of educators to maximize the potential of all students. She believes that in every American classroom is a future scientist, a future pulitzer prize winner, a future novelist. Recognizing the challenges that students and educators alike face, Barrie’s work at LDC focused on the design and delivery of quality resources, tools, and professional supports that ensure that the leaders of tomorrow receive the foundations they need today. Operating from a system’s approach, Barrie’s vision connected each level of the educational system to enact change and create equity for all students and support for all educators. 

Prior to joining LDC, Barrie was writing, communication, and literacy professor  at the University of Nevada, Reno, the University of Louisville, and the University of Cincinnati, Blue Ash College. She also worked as a Writing Program Administrator, helping to support university writing centers, composition programs, and business communication labs. Her research focuses on how to teach the explicit and implicit features of discipline-specific writing and on the process of  writing transfer from secondary to post-secondary education. She has been published in journals such as Composition Studies, Writing Across the Curriculum, and the Journal of College Writing. Barrie also frequently hosts educational workshops on empowering students to be disciplinary thinkers and writers and, more importantly, to understand the metacognitive connection between the thinking in a discipline and the writing of that discipline. In addition, she works with educators to implement the tenets of meaningful gamification and simulation pedagogy, both of which aim to reduce the detachment between theory and practice in the classroom. She earned her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Louisville, where she was the recipient of the Barbara Plattus Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Barrie is currently the Chief Literacy Officer at Carnegie Learning.