About Barbee

Barbee was born at Memorial Hospital in Charlotte, NC on February 23, 1976.  She is the fourth child of Frank and Ethel, who had two children, Helen and Gary, then waited 10 years and had two more, Andy and Barbee.  No, Andy is not her twin but they were raised together and were frequently dressed alike before they had any say in the matter. 

Barbee grew up going to public schools in Charlotte—Huntingtowne Farms, Bruns Avenue, Quail Hollow, and South Mecklenburg.  After high school, she attended the University of North Carolina—yes that’s Chapel Hill, the flagship of the North Carolina University system and is certainly not to be confused with UNC-Charlotte. 

Upon graduating from Carolina, Barbee was hired into a 16-month training program in Global Treasury Services (GTS) at Bank of America.  This was when she got the feedback that the name Barbee was “stupid”, “cutesy”, and “embarrassing to say”.  She has been working undercover at the Bank as “Barbara” ever since.  She worked in GTS for about a year, then moved to one of the bank’s adventuresome “.com” projects serving the Commercial area of the bank, then moved to Small Business e-Commerce, then on to the area where she works now, Consumer e-Commerce.

Barbee has a few accomplishments that she feels most proud of and that have shaped her the most.  In 1991 she had a teacher, Anne Cole, who believed in her and helped her get a Pageship in the North Carolina Legislature where she began to be interested in politics.  In 1993, she served as a Senate Intern. In 1994, she was accepted into the University of North Carolina. She served as the Academic Affairs Chair in the Executive Cabinet of the Student Body President in 1997-98. In 1999, she spent 9 weeks traveling throughout California just after the merger of BankAmerica and NationsBank.  Also in 1999 she began working as a preschool teacher for two-years-olds on Sunday mornings at her church. She attended the 1996 and 2000 IVCF Urbana Missions Conferences where she developed a desire to send missionaries out into the field. It seems like all she does lately is work at Bank of America, but she’s waiting with expectation to see what will happen next.