She is the 2013 winner of the Jurist Excellence in Teaching Award (selected by the graduating class). Barbara has taught more than ten courses in her fifteen years with the law school, consistently stressing experiential learning and integrating substantive knowledge with practical application to help her students prepare for modern legal practice. Her courses include: Nonprofits; Art & Cultural Property; English Common Law (in London); Microtrade Development (in Nicaragua), experiential learning practicums and externships with local nonprofits or firms and contract drafting and writing courses to JD, MSL and International LLM students. In addition to her teaching, Barbara advises and mentors her students, has been the transfer student advisor for 13 years, advises the Wake Forest Journal of Business & Intellectual Property Law and coaches national moot court teams.