About Barry

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Words and images have been Barry Waldman’s weapons of choice since he broadcast the NCAA soccer championships on the radio his junior year of college. With 30 years of work in journalism, public relations and marketing under his belt, Barry struck out on his own to focus on content creation in 2015 after 17 years as VP for Communications at United Way.

A native of New York City, Barry graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor’s degree in economics and psychology, and a master’s in journalism. For a decade he served as a radio news director, a business newspaper reporter, and the Capitol correspondent for the Associated Press Radio Network from Albany.

A Big Brother, a human rights advocate and a builder of houses with Habitat for Humanity, Barry has volunteered at a crisis hotline and is on his 16th gallon of blood donations. He also warps young minds at the College of Charleston, where he teaches PR, marketing and writing courses and was twice named Adjunct Professor of the Year.

Barry and his wife Michelle are owned by a cat named Elmo who allows them to live with him in a house in Charleston. Barry bats left-handed, throws right-handed, and is – at 5’9”, 160 pounds – the proud champion of a statewide lumberjacking competition. No, really.