 Amy Barr,
M.S., Ed.M., R.D.
Amy Barr,
co-founder of Marr Barr, is a registered
dietitian and veteran
communications expert
for more than 25 years.
She specializes in food
and nutrition, consumer
affairs, agriculture and
the natural products industry.
Amy contributes to the team solid media relations, journalistic writing
and overall marketing communications expertise in food, nutrition and consumer lifestyles.
With long-term experience in corporate consumer affairs as well as journalism,
she is an insightful sounding board for consumer- and media-focused strategies and tactics.
Her life journey, from growing up on a farm in Nebraska to building a successful journalism and
food marketing career in the city that never sleeps, have resulted in world-class visionary thinking
grounded in a good dose of reality.
Prior to Marr Barr, Amy was vice
president of communications
for Horizon Organic Dairy,
Boulder, Colorado, and
was the company's first
female vice president
and also served as the
company's first director
of communications. She
was Good Housekeeping
magazine's nutrition and
fitness editor and, later,
director of the Good Housekeeping
Institute, New York City.
She also served as the
magazine's official spokesperson
for national media and
congressional testimony.
Amy was executive editor-at-large
for McCall's magazine
and also worked at General
Foods, White Plains, New
York, and the Food Marketing
Institute, Washington,
D.C.
Active in many professional and
community endeavors, Amy sits on the editorial board of Nutrition Today and
is immediate past chair of the Marketing Communicators Section of the International
Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). She served
on the board of advisors
of the Sarah W. Stedman
Center for Nutritional
Studies at Duke University as well as
the board of the Hunger and Environmental Nutrition
Dietetic Practice Group,
and is the former Consumer
Advisor to the American
Egg Board.
Amy holds two masters degrees
- one in nutrition education
from Tufts University
and another in science
journalism from Boston
University. She received
her undergraduate degree
in nutrition from the
University of Nebraska
- Lincoln. |
