Barbara Burton
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Barbara Burton

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Barbara Burton is a former Capitol Hill reporter and registered nurse. For the past 25 years, she’s worked in management consulting helping companies with strategic visioning, cultural alignment, communication and sustainability. Barbara is the author of two illustrated, sing-along children’s books, the most recent, published in 2023, is titled Annie Kai Lani Kai Lou: Maui’s Beloved Pup. Barbara also is a soft jazz vocalist and recorded two CDs. She enjoys writing songs and lyrics and created the song and sings vocals in her children’s books. She’s published numerous business and feature articles through the years, and decided to write a novel in 2023. Barbara has degrees in Journalism and Nursing and multiple business and coaching certifications. She lives in La Jolla with her husband and two Springer Spaniels. Barbara was inspired to write a novel about how individuals “create” a family when they have no family of origin, having experienced some loss of family in her own life. Her character faces depression, loneliness and estrangement from her family but finds love, acceptance and connection with the neighbors around her. The positive transformation in the character is profound and she creates a nonprofit organization that encourages individuals to reach out to neighbors and create a new family. In the book, she calls the organization, Neighbors as Family. Barbara decided to make the organization real and a website is currently under development.
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