Traci A. Barnett, MBA
Chief Executive Officer Girl Scouts of Central Maryland
Traci A. Barnett has been in the nonprofit field for over 20 years working for both healthcare and service organizations. Ms. Barnett has held several key executive and director level positions with such organizations as the Easter Seal Society, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and the Visiting Nurse Association. In her current position Ms. Barnett is the chief executive officer of one of the largest Girl Scouts Councils in the country, overseeing 85 staff, 10,000 volunteers and a $5.5 million budget. Girl Scouts of Central Maryland provides leadership and self-esteem building programs to nearly 30,000 girls in Baltimore and the five surrounding counties.
Under Ms. Barnett’s leadership Girl Scouts of Central Maryland launched the Bridge Beyond Bars program in 2003, expanding the current Beyond Bars program to include women in pre-release and their daughters. Additionally, Girl Scouts of Central Maryland provides a myriad of programs for at-risk girls in the city of Baltimore including a Project Anti-Violence Education initiative known as PAVE the Way Baltimore that reaches several thousand youth each year and in-school programs in some of Baltimore’s toughest city schools. Girl Scouts of Central Maryland has received the prestigious Standards for Excellence Accreditation from the Maryland Association of Non Profit Organizations (MANO), a designation received by less than 1% of nonprofits in the state of Maryland and was named a finalist for the Maryland Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year Award in the nonprofit category in 2008.
Ms. Barnett has a master’s degree in business administration and a bachelor’s degree in communications. She is the Treasurer of Network 2000, a member of the Greater Baltimore Committee, Baltimore County Chamber of Commerce and the Girl Scout Legislative Coalition of Maryland. Ms. Barnett is a 2006 recipient of Smart Woman/Smart CEO Magazine’s BRAVO Award and was one of four CEO’s from across the country to assist with the development of a new program model for Girl Scouts of the USA, which will be implemented in 2008. She also received the Toastmasters International Leadership and Communication Award in 2007 and was named a Maryland Top 100 Woman by the Daily Record in 2008.
