Barbara Friedman

Barbara Friedman Event Coordinator

Barbara Friedman’s career began in education.  From 1973 to 1977, she was an elementary education teacher working in grades 1 through 6 in New Jersey.  She received a Master’s in Remedial Reading in 1977 and worked as a remedial reading teacher until 1983.  At that point, as she was unable to find further teaching jobs, she began a 21-year career in the business world as an executive assistant, beginning at Merrill Lynch in New York City.  After moving to Los Angeles in 1990, she worked at the Times Mirror Company and then at a television production company.  However, having made some bad choices, she ended up as a resident at BTS in 2000.  After completing the program, she worked at the Jewish Federation’s Women’s Division and then as the Executive Assistant to the President at G&K Management.  

In November of 2006, Barbara began working in the Development Department at Beit T’Shuvah.  She currently has 10 years sober, recently received a Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Management from the American Jewish University and is considered by her coworkers as an “inspiration”.