Barbara started kayaking in San Diego in 1994, receiving rolling, surfing, and sea kayaking instruction from Rocky and other instructors at UCSD’s Outback Adventures program. With Rocky she has done exploratory descents of Río Ameca (2000) and Río Balleza (2001) in Mexico, and paddled throughout Baja California. The pair made their union official in November 2002.

Since living in Mexico City for a year as an exchange student, Barbara has enjoyed traveling all over Mexico. She previously worked with the Mexican community in the Tijuana-San Diego border area as a bilingual speech-language pathologist and early language acquisition researcher. She currently conducts studies of bilingual language acquisition in infants and toddlers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, and enjoys river and sea kayaking trips in the Northwest when time permits.

Send an e-mail to Barbara (bconboy@u.washington.edu)