Barbara Raab is a Senior Program Adviser at the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation
Barbara is based in New York City as the “eyes and ears” of JLFF on the East Coast. Previously, she spent four years at the Ford Foundation as the program officer for journalism, where she developed and managed a $10 million portfolio of grants supporting non-profit journalism organizations in the U.S. and globally. Her work also supported press freedoms, public media, narrative storytelling and diversity in journalism.
Prior to Ford, Barbara worked for 20 years in senior roles at NBC News. In 2019, she returned to 30 Rock help lead the launch of an audio/podcasting unit for NBC/MSNBC. She has also recently served as Senior Adviser to the Dean at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York (CUNY).
She has shared in all of broadcast journalism’s top awards and honors, including a George Foster Peabody Award for her leadership of “In Plain Sight: Poverty in America,” a year-long reporting project. Barbara has also worked for CBS local news in Chicago, and has been a freelance contributor to dozens of outlets including The New York Times, Slate and Sirius XM Radio, where she was National Legal Correspondent for the LGBTQ news channel for six years.
Barbara has a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. from Brown University.
She is also an amateur standup comic.