Beau Barberis

Country Chair For Germany

Beau Barberis is a children’s author and advocate. She is the idea and author behind the dignity-themed poem/colouring book, How Does Your Dignity Feel?. The book has been translated into 23 languages and distributed worldwide to tens of thousands of displaced and disadvantaged children. Beau also creates dignity workshops for schools and has delivered dignity workshops to thousands of children, parents and educators in Germany and worldwide. She provides support to schools in developing their own dignity-based projects and curricula. She is also a core member and corporate trainer of Global Dignity’s Ambassador Program.

Beau is a former attorney, practicing for many years in Chicago. She began her legal career working in the City courtrooms as a prosecutor. She then went into private practice working with creatives, artists and companies helping them to protect their intellectual property rights. She is a graduate of the John Marshall Law School (now University of Illinois) and received an undergraduate degree from The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Volunteering has been an integral part of her life. In 1984, she was in the first cohort of recipients of The Congressional Award, conferred by the United States Congress.

In 2004, life brought her to Munich, Germany and she is now proudly a German citizen. Growing up in one culture and living for decades in another has shown her the critical importance of global acceptance, compassion and living a life of dignity.