Name: Barbara Poma
Game Honored: Orlando Magic vs. Charlotte Hornets (10/27/21)
Barbara Poma, founder and owner of Pulse nightclub, was raised in Coral Springs, Fla., where she attended J.P. Taravella High School. She graduated in 1990 from the University of Central Florida with a BA in English Literature and a minor in Secondary Education and was a member of the Pi Beta Phi Sorority.
Poma worked as an educator in the Orange County Public School system for three years teaching Creative Writing, Language Arts, Debate and Drama.
In 1995, she married entrepreneur Rosario Poma, with whom she has two children and a stepdaughter.