District 9550 - Jo Barnes, RC Atherton

Jo lives in Atherton west of Cairns and has been a Rotarian for 7 years. Apart from being a past president and director for 4 years, her service in Rotary has ranged from Secretary of the biennial Rotary FNQ Field days, Coordinator of the annual Rotary Tastes of the Tablelands event to Chair of the Rotary Rocky Creek WW2 Igloo Restoration sub committee. She has traveled to Cambodia to assist in an education project our Rotary club contributes to in the Siem Reap district.

Jo is a retired teacher and school administrator. Her area of training and expertise has been teaching students with a disability, and she is experienced in the education of students in all areas of disability, being intellectual, hearing and visual impairment, autism spectrum disorder and physical impairment effecting mobility.​