Jacqueline Barge is a National Board Certified Teacher, having received a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the University of Chicago and a Master of Arts in Teaching from National Louis University. She has worked in elementary and currently teaches at Walter Payton College Prep High School in Chicago. She has had many long standing collaborations in curriculum development with educational groups, such as the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory, the Depaul Nasa Center, UIC-Fermilab's Quarknet group, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Chicago Public Schools/University of Chicago Internet Project and the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program. In 2016 Jacqueline was awarded the Thomas J Brennan Award by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for demonstrating excellence in the teaching of astronomy at the high school level in North America.