Carol Barash, PhD
Founder and CEO of Story2, Carol has built a community of over a quarter-million storytellers across five continents. A serial entrepreneur backed by Goldman Sachs 10KSB, Techstars, and Kaplan Ventures, Carol was named a Top 20 Women in NYC Tech. Carol developed the patented Moments Method® curriculum and StoryBuilder software, which measurably improve people’s speaking and writing fluency. In addition to supporting students' college and career access, Carol coaches CEOs -- including those listed in Time's 100 Most Influential People -- to complete best-selling books. A graduate of Yale and Princeton, Carol is the author of Write Out Loud (McGraw-Hill) and English Women's Poetry (Oxford University Press), named a top 100 Book in the Humanities. Prior to Story2, Carol worked in leadership roles at Princeton, CUNY, and CommonHealth-WPP, where she developed the first online discussion forums for people with HIV. #AMA about storytelling, learning and community. @carolbarash.
Credits
Founder and CEO of Story2
Storytelling community of over a quarter-million people across five continents.
Created the Moments Method®, a patented storytelling framework, and EssayBuilder® platform to teach people how to speak and write powerfully.
Backed by Goldman Sachs, Techstars, Kaplan, and Yale.
Named Top 20 Women in NYC Tech.
Featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Washington Post.
Sold her first company, a marketing tech startup. Customers included Jaguar North America, Ernst & Young, and Princeton University.
Launched the first online discussion groups for people with HIV, working with Pfizer and global marketing company WPP.
Coached five successful CEOs -- including those listed on Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People and Forbes’ Top 100 Most Powerful Women in the World -- to complete and publish their books.
Created Cross-Cultural Dialogue program between Israeli, Palestinian, and US middle school and high school teachers and students.
Award-winning teacher of writing, gender, and sexuality at Princeton, University of Michigan, and Rutgers.
Served on the Board of Directors of the Women Writers Project at Brown University; working with CETH, created the first online editions of Shakespeare and the U.S. Declaration of Independence for scholarly use.
Author of two award-winning books: English Women's Poetry (Oxford University Press), which was recognized as a top 100 book in the Humanities, and Write Out Loud (McGraw-Hill Education), the definitive study of how to use storytelling to write successful college admission essays.
Graduated summa cum laude from Yale with distinction as a Scholar of the House.
First to receive a PhD combining Literature and Gender Studies from Princeton.