Barry is director of the Online Leadership Program at Global Kids. He holds a BA from Northwestern University and an MA in American Studies from New York University. He has developed innovative programs in the areas of youth-led online dialogues, video games as a form of youth media, the application of social networks for social good, the educational potential of virtual worlds like Second Life, the educational application of mobile phones and alternative assessment models. He is devoted to combining youth development practices with the development of high profile digital media projects that advance 21st Century Skills and New Media Literacies.

Barry speaks frequently around the country at conferences and leads professional development trainings for a wide variety of educational, civic and cultural institutions. His projects and views have appeared in The New York Times, CNN, Marie Claire, BusinessWeek, The Voice of America, and through press in Russia and Japan.

He served on the initial steering committee of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning initiative and his writing appears in the Foundation's Ecology of Games volume. During his time at Global Kids, Barry has also successfully launched two non-profits - Games For Change and a second entity working for a peaceful resolution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. He is currently working to advance the emerging communities around games-based learning, learning through virtual worlds, and those in general concerned about digital media and learning.

Barry joined Global Kids in 2000 through the New Voices Fellowship of the Academy for Educational Development, funded by the Ford Foundation. He has also worked with GK's development program to secure funding from the Motorola Foundation, Time-Warner Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, the MacArthur Foundation, AMD, and the Microsoft Corporation, amongst others. More information can be found at olpglobalkids.org and youtube.com/holymeatballs.