[1] In 2017 she was the joint winner of the Wirihana Leadership Award at the Architecture + Women NZ Dulux Awards.
[2] Barter originally planned to study medicine, but enrolled to study architecture instead, at the University of Auckland.
[3] In 2010, she and Maggie Carroll founded their own architecture firm, Bureaux.
[4][5] In 2016, Barter and Carroll contributed to the design of the New Zealand pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture.
Occasionally Barter is referred to as Jessica Walker.