Robert J Barra

Robert Barra is an educator and an environmental scientist. He taught in publicand private schools in the U.S. and The Netherlands. In 2001, he was workingas an environmental scientist when terrorists attacked the World Trade Centerin New York City. He led a disaster recovery team at Ground Zero for sixmonths.In 2003, he moved to The Netherlands where he worked in competencedevelopment for the IKEA organization. He traveled in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and North America for business and...See more

Robert Barra is an educator and an environmental scientist. He taught in publicand private schools in the U.S. and The Netherlands. In 2001, he was workingas an environmental scientist when terrorists attacked the World Trade Centerin New York City. He led a disaster recovery team at Ground Zero for sixmonths.In 2003, he moved to The Netherlands where he worked in competencedevelopment for the IKEA organization. He traveled in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and North America for business and pleasure. He retired in 2018.He is an avid motorcyclist and wilderness canoe and camping enthusiast, whopaddled the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in the North Maine Woods moretimes than he can count and the Yukon River from Whitehorse, Yukon Territoryto Dawson City on the Klondike.In the summer of 2019, he spent two months riding a motorcycle fromMassachusetts to California and back to relearn what it was like to be anAmerican. See less