Rebecca Barnes

Rebecca Barnes is an architect, planner and writer whose work has focused on collaboratively envisioning, planning and designing humane communities, institutions and campuses, and transportation infrastructure in Boston, Providence, Seattle, Puerto Rico and now New Bedford. She helped shape the future of places for people through community development projects that include Boston’s Big Dig and Rose Kennedy Greenway, Seattle’s first growth- management comprehensive plan, the University of Washington’s new 20-year Campus Master Plan, and Brown University’s recent growth in Providence’s historic Jewelry District. Rebecca was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. She holds degrees from the University of Oregon (architecture) and from Brown University (American Civilization). Her work in supporting strong communities included journalism as columnist, feature writer and editor of ARCADE, a Pacific NW design publication. After retiring she relocated to New Bedford, where she is a founder and board member of the New Bedford Light, an independent, online, non-profit community news source.