Barri is the JBN Communications and Engagement Associate,. She graduated from Temple University with a major in religion and spent her Freshman year abroad in Israel on a Masa program known as Aardvark. Throughout her high school years, she was a strong leader in both BBYO and a Chabad youth group called Cteen. Through those experiences, she learned various leadership, organizational, and relationship skills, as well as finding her love and passion for Judaism. During her senior year at Temple University, Barri student taught, along with the head of the undergraduate religion department, a course called Religion and Human Sexuality. This experience created a passion to spread her love of religion to the world.