Barbara Gaughen-Muller, is the quintessential global citizen and activist who focuses her work on bringing peace to her community, her country and the entire global village. She has devoted her life to creating a better world as a peacemaker, an author, and motivational speaker, radio show host, a visionary leader and peace podcast host.
Believing in the power of conversation for peace, she co-authored Revolutionary Conversations: The Tools You Need for the Success You Want.
Barbara is the president of the 2020-21 Rotary E Club of World Peace. From 2012 to present, Barbara has served as president of the Santa Barbara and Tri-Counties Chapter of the United Nations Association of the USA (www.UNASB.org ) and created the Santa Barbara UNA Peace Prize to honour peacemakers working locally on global problems. She was one of the first woman Rotarians invited to join the Hollywood Rotary Club and is a Paul Harris Fellow. As the co-founder and program director of the Rotary E Club of World Peace, she hosts podcasts with world peacemakers at weekly meetings: www.RotaryeClubofWorldPeace.org She helped orchestrate the first Rotary World Peace Conference in 2016 and her interviews with 75 of the peace speakers are available on line at www.peaceconference2016.org .
She is a sought after keynote speaker on the “Time for Peace is Now” and was a speaker at the 70th anniversary of the United Nations, in New York, where she received the Spirit of the United Nations award. Barbara’s late husband and partner Dr. Robert Muller, former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, and she co-authored “7500 Ideas for a Better World”, shared daily on www.GoodMorningWorld.org in 5 world languages.
She co-created the La Casa Invitationals where global thinkers met to solve world problems. She is the founder of a socially responsible public relations firm Gaughen (GONE) Global Public Relations, for which she just received the 2018 IRWIN Award. For more than three decades, she has used the Engineering of Public Consent for Global change campaigns around water, the seas and the oceans, saving the worlds forests and creating a preserve in Costa Rica, near the University for Peace, which was co-created by her late husband, Dr. Robert Muller.
Barbara is a dynamic, passionate, spiritually aware and awake woman whose positive, insightful “Peace is possible” message is an inspiration to friends and colleagues. She continues to speak for peace among nations and how to end the war on nature, as she creates solutions for solving future challenges before it is too late. “Inaction is not an Option” is the theme for her events to encourage attendees to become change agents by contributing their ideas and actions to avoid what just might be our last century on our precious life-sustaining Planet.
