Barbara A Res is an American attorney, author, and engineer.
19 Facts About Barbara Res
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Barbara Res was an executive vice president in charge of construction at the Trump Organization and has spoken out publicly against its owner Donald Trump, particularly about his treatment of women.
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In October 2020, Res released her memoir, Tower of Lies: What My Eighteen Years of Working With Donald Trump Reveals About Him about her experiences at the Trump Organization.
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Barbara Res was born Barbara Tahan in Brooklyn, New York.
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Barbara Res attended City College of New York and graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1971.
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In 2007, Barbara Res earned a Juris Doctor from Rutgers Law School.
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Barbara Res is a Licensed Professional Engineer in New York State and is a member of the New York and New Jersey bar associations.
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Barbara Res began working in construction in 1971 and began to work for Donald Trump in a junior position during his first construction in Manhattan, the Grand Hyatt.
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Barbara Res joined the Trump Organization in 1980 and then worked for Trump over the course of eighteen years as a vice president, senior vice president, and executive vice president.
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Barbara Res was hired by Trump to lead construction on Trump Tower as Vice President in charge of construction when she was thirty-one years old, and helped build Trump Tower between 1980 and 1984.
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Barbara Res was the first woman to oversee a major NYC construction site, and worked with Trump on some of his biggest projects, including the renovation of New York's Plaza Hotel.
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Barbara Res was selected to join the construction panel of the American Arbitration Association for arbitration and mediation in 2003.
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Barbara Res joined Digibuild, the creator of a unique construction management software platform built with blockchain technology as Senior Vice President.
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Barbara Res has publicly spoken about women in the construction business throughout the United States and in England.
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Barbara Res has spoken out publicly against Trump, particularly about his treatment of women, including in opinion articles in the New York Daily News and The Guardian, as well as interviews with CNN, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and Rachel Maddow of MSNBC in 2016.
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Information provided by Res was included in a June 2016 Atlantic story by Dan P McAdams, a psychology professor at Northwestern University and author of the book The Strange Case of Donald J Trump: A Psychological Reckoning.
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Barbara Res is the author of the 2013 book All Alone on the 68th Floor: How One Woman Changed the Face of Construction, a self-published memoir about her experiences in the construction business, which includes descriptions of her work with Donald Trump.
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In October 2020, Barbara Res released a book entitled Tower of Lies: What My Eighteen Years of Working With Donald Trump Reveals About Him.
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C-SPAN's Washington Journal interviewed Barbara Res to discuss Tower of Lies, in an episode scheduled to air on December 26,2020.