Janette Barber is the Executive Producer of Rosie Radio on SiriusXM and is also a featured member of the daily ensemble.

Janette is the former five time Emmy award winning Supervising Producer and
Head Writer from the Rosie O’Donnell Show.  She has written for the Grammy Awards and the Tony Awards. Janette created, produced and co-hosted her own show called Lighten Up on the TV Food Network. Following that, she was Hot Topics Writer on ABC’s The View where, in June of ’08, she earned her 6th Emmy award for Special Class Writing.  Janette is co-writer on Cassandra’s Angel (the musical), an adaptation based on the award winning children’s book by Gina Otto. 

Janette uses her celebrity whenever possible to aid international humanitarian relief efforts.  In the past she has travelled with the non-profit disaster relief group, AmeriCares, to the refugee camps in Albania during the war in Kosovo.  She flew into Kosovo itself in the first airlift from any agency to get in after the war.  She continued her efforts travelling to the Republic of Congo with medical aid in the aftermath of civil war.  Currently Janette is Ambassador at Large for Medical Missions For Children, a Massachusetts based non-profit which sends volunteer medical teams to third world countries to perform free surgeries on deformed children.  Janette recently travelled with them on a mission to Rwanda.  She created a web series entitled “Smile Fix Rwanda.”

In print Janette has a USA Today best seller to her credit called Breaking the Rules, Last Ditch Tactics for Landing the Man of Your Dreams (Career Press).  Her latest book, released in June of ’08, called Embracing Your Big Fat A** (Atria) and is humorous empowerment for women around the topic of body image.