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Barbara L. Collura

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Areas of Expertise:

• Professional experience recruiting, managing and retaining high impact nationwide volunteers
• Skilled public speaker with expertise in women's health, health policy and reproductive health
• Successful track record in managing for-profit and nonprofit organizations from $1,000,000 to $20,000,000 in revenue

Barbara Collura joined Coulter as a senior associate in August 2007, when RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association (RESOLVE), of which Collura serves as executive director, became a client of Coulter Nonprofit Management. She first joined RESOLVE in September 2004 as Director of Chapter & Constituent Services.

Prior to joining the national headquarters staff of RESOLVE, she served as a volunteer for the organization in the D.C. metro area for several years. Once on staff, Collura oversaw the restructuring of RESOLVE's nationwide volunteer network from a chapter model to an integrated, regional model. She hired and managed the first regional staff for RESOLVE, facilitating the development of standardized processes, procedures, templates and forms. Collura also managed a number of external projects, including National Infertility Awareness Week®.

As executive director, Collura represents RESOLVE at a number of national conferences as well as on various committees and organizations, including the National Committee on the Oversight of Assisted Reproductive Technologies, the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and serves on the Board of Directors for the National Health Council. As the official spokesperson for RESOLVE, Collura is frequently interviewed by the media and speaks at conferences and events on a variety of topics related to infertility.  She has been quoted in the national media including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Parenting Magazine. Collura has been a featured guest on the TODAY Show on NBC, MSNBC and FOX and Friends on FOX News.

Prior to coming to RESOLVE, Collura served as vice president of operations for a high-tech recruiting organization and also owned her own high-tech recruiting firm. She has served as a volunteer with the American University Alumni Association, her church and other social service organizations. She received an undergraduate degree from the University of Montana and a graduate degree in international affairs from American University in Washington, D.C.

Collura, her husband, Chris, and their son reside in Herndon, Virginia.

Now, here's the backstory on Barb:

• Hometown: Bloomington, Minnesota.
• Parents: Mom is still going strong, now working part-time in my sister's law firm. She and Dad joined the Peace Corps when they were 60 years old and served in the Solomon Islands for two years (and missed my wedding!). My dad was a local elected official and worked for the same company as a senior manager for more than 25 years. He passed away in 1997.
• Favorite TV show as a kid: Hogan's Heroes
• Spent my days as a youth: I ran the neighborhood! I was into everything, including school and local civic theater, cheerleading, yearbook and fun, fun, fun with my friends.
• Hobbies: Food (everything about it—eating, cooking, shopping, reading), traveling, photography, scrapbooking and yoga.
• First paycheck job: Bloomington Drug. I worked the front cashier, restocked items and sometimes got to help the pharmacist.
• First car: A Volkswagen Rabbit, brown, two-door, stick shift. I have no idea what the model year was, but in 1984 it was already an old car. I loved that car and traveled all over the U.S. in it!
• First job after college: I went to grad school. My first full-time "real" job was as an administrative assistant for the American Hellenic Alliance, a nonprofit Greek-American organization in D.C. It was fun, and it landed me a job in Athens, Greece!
• Thing you would most likely learn about me in the first five minutes of conversation: I talk with my hands and have a lot of energy. Oh—and I don't have a Minnesota accent!
• Perfect happiness is: Going on an outing, trip, or any activity with my son and husband. If the dog can come, too, then it is complete.
• If I had to do it all over again: I would not change anything!