Barbara Wallace

Barbara Joan Wallace is the Vice President for Membership and Standards for InterAction. Ms. Wallace is responsible for promoting InterAction's strategic engagement with the leadership of member organizations, developing long-range plans for membership development and expansion and building a strong U.S. NGO community. She also serves on the Independent Sector Membership Committee, the Charity Navigator Advisory Panel, and on the PM4NGO Board of Directors.

Ms. Wallace came to InterAction from RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund, where she served initially as Managing Director and then Executive Director from 2001-2006. She represented RESULTS in the National Anti-Hunger Organizations Coalition and InterAction and served on the boards of the Basic Education Coalition and the U.S. Alliance to End Hunger. While on the Board of the Alliance to End Hunger, she served as chair of the Alliance to End Hunger's Presidential Task Force, created to bring issues of hunger and poverty forward as major issues for all candidates in presidential elections.

Prior to RESULTS, Ms. Wallace worked at Landmark Education where her she managed multiple departments, volunteer recruitment and leadership development. Ms. Wallace's experience as a businesswoman began while still in college, at which time she started the first of two successful businesses in the printing industry, generating impressive revenue and industry innovation. For several years, Ms. Wallace volunteered with organizations that fought for Native American rights and educational opportunities for the impoverished. Participation in the ceremonial life of Native American people and long-term activism in Native American issues are cherished parts of her life.