Barbara Martinez is a Chief Executive Officer New Jersey Children's Foundation at NJ Children's Foundation. She possess expertise in education. Colleagues describe her as "When I met Barbara, she was an eager college student willing to do anything to get herself into a newsroom. She became an invaluable news assistant at a busy daily in central New Jersey, quickly catching on to the flow and needs of the newsroom. Before long, she was going out on stories and coming back with the goods. That was then. She went on to great accomplishments at The Wall Street Journal, one of the country's best publications, and then found her calling in the education field. She parlayed her news work into her passion and now is excelling in her new environment. Barbara has taken her ambition and realized her potential. Not many people can say that."