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Barbara Travis, born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, was reared in Greenville, MS, a rural, agriculture-based Delta town currently noted for its musical Blues and heritage-related tourism. Two of Barbara’s brothers and her mother reside in the state, and a third brother lives in Texas.
Barbara’s love of dance began at the age of 12 with beginning lessons in ballet, jazz and tap dance; then continued through high school and college where she performed in various recitals and school-related events. In college, Barbara used her dance and modeling skills to enter scholarship pageants to help defray tuition and other school expense. She was trained at John Robert Powers Modeling School in Dallas, Texas.
After graduation she taught modeling as a sideline business and incorporated her instructional techniques into university programs as a supplement to existing merchandising and marketing classes. While teaching at Delta State University in Cleveland, MS, she received statewide and national recognition for her work with students in articles published in Mississippi Magazine, Seventeen magazine, US magazine, the Commercial Appeal and Clarion Ledger newspapers, the Los Angeles Times and CBS’s Today Show.
Barbara has enjoyed a long and successful career in the retail development and economic development industries while building her corporate and community marketing consultation business. She is the Executive Director of the Mississippi World Trade Center, extremely active in her community and has attained several academic and professional certifications honoring her achievements and career accomplishments.
Barbara and husband Nick, reside in Flowood, Mississippi. They have two sons, two dogs and three grand-dogs. They enjoy spending time with family, cooking, entertaining and at a post-Hurricane Katrina fish camp in Louisiana.
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The Ms. Senior America Pageant is
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