Barbara is project manager at the Swiss Institute for Children’s and Youth Media SIKJM, Zurich. She has a degree in German Literature and Language, Art History and English Literature. She was a former assistant at the IBBY Secretariat and a librarian at a high school. She has worked at the SIKJM since 2003 in the area of reading promotion with a focus on early education, picture books, and teaching and further education for librarians, early childhood educators and primary school teachers. She is responsible for the two year trainee program and is a Reading Facilitator SIKKIM and for the Bookstart programme. She is a board member of Baobab Books, Basel.
Website: www.sikjm.ch