Our Team

Barbara, a white woman with white hair and bright, pink lipstick, stands in front of the Puget Sound smiling.

Barbara Cairns

Strategist, Of Counsel

Pronouns: She/Her

Barbara led Pyramid’s Conservation and Sustainability practice group for eight years. Barbara specializes in helping people and communities find creative paths to achieve their aspirations. She is a strategist, facilitator, issue framer, writer, and story teller. She has extensive experience in non-profit management; national, state, and local political and legislative campaigns; and brings deep issue expertise in natural resources and environmental policy. Her clients include the University of Washington College of the Environment, the Center for Large Landscape Conservation, Earthjustice, the Wilderness Society, Resources Legacy Fund and the San Francisco Estuary Institute.

Before joining Pyramid, Barbara was executive director of the regional salmon recovery organization Long Live the Kings, deputy director of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and legislative assistant on the environment to U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman.