But the key thing I think women have to understand, especially women, not discounting men, but women have to understand, is for that time period that you’re gonna have the full-time job, you’re gonna have the husband who you finally get to talk to about nine o’clock at night after… Read More
But the key thing, I think, about that is that, so you can schedule, and you can organize, and you can organize to the best of your ability, and most of the time you can make the juggle work, right?… Read More
And then in my daytimer, the good old fashioned daytimers we used to have, before we had these darn phones, right?… Read More
If you’ve gotta be somewhere, it’s family first. Except, I couldn’t do anything for the union staff, ironically. I would’ve, but I couldn’t. But for the staff that were not unionized then they were, if they had a dentist appointment for the kids or whatever, they could go. Whatever we’re… Read More
The daytimer, I had color coded the family activities and the work activities. And I was blessed with a wonderful administrative assistant, Teri Delias, who was aunt to all my kids. And we would sit down every Monday morning and go through the week. Here’s what’s happening this week. And… Read More
How did you do that?… Read More
We both work full-time jobs. And so I think the way you do that is that, you can do that. You can make that happen. You just have to take this time to be organized. Every Sunday we had a board on the kitchen, on the fridge, and the kids… Read More
How did you go, how did you have seven children, a full-time job, an intense full-time job, seven days a week, and are always on call, all hours of the night and day, and then also have a husband of 39 years, hallelujah, put up with me that long, who… Read More
My husband ran the National Aviary in Pittsburgh. As a matter of fact, he’s the one that got the designation for the National Aviary in Pittsburgh. That was his vision, that was his idea, and I’m very proud of that. So the national Aviary in Pittsburgh, he was the executive… Read More
Well, I’m a type AAAA personality, so I’m always up to something. But I’ve been very blessed. We have a birth daughter named Catherine Casey, and we then, along the way, adopted six children into our family. They joined our family through adoption, older child adoption. We basically adopted two… Read More
It really was. I often give lectures to women in looking at president, CEO roles and wanting to have a balanced life. And they wanna know how you do that. Read More
How were you able to balance these two entities?… Read More
If you’re privatizing the zoo, I’d spend eight hours a day downtown with the city and nobody would say anything about, well, what’s the best thing for the zoo?… Read More
Nobody said that. So I think that is very different. I think if I had to go back and improve Barbara Baker, I think that what has made me a successful leader is that I am passionate about what I believe in. I think that if I had to improve… Read More
It’d be eight hours and nobody, I’d walk outta the meeting going, well, what’s the best thing for the zoo?… Read More
It’s growing, it’s very professional, great organization to be a part of, and I’m very proud to have been a part of it. Read More
If you could go back in time, what, if anything, would you have done differently?… Read More
Oh, a ton of things. I screw up all the time, I’m really good at it. So a ton of things. Gosh, that’s a tough question. I think there’s a lot of things I would’ve done differently in my life. I might have second guessed whether I really wanted to… Read More
It’s so close, and yet the animal rights folks take the standards that ZAA had 10 years ago, and they present those as the standards. Well, look, ZAA doesn’t meet AZA standards because, and here’s the proof. Well, those standards are from 10 years ago. They’re not the ones we… Read More
As a matter of fact, some of the language is so close I’m like, who copied who?… Read More