Practice areas:  Evaluation/outcome measurement; Executive coaching; General management; Leadership development; Organizational design and structure; Programmatic design, management, development; Strategic planning; Volunteer Recruitment and Management.

Select Support Center experience: Bronx Baptist Daycare and Learning Center; Educational Arts Team; KKAC Organization; New York City Department of Small Business Services; New York Foundation for the Arts; Partnership West, Inc., Red Hook Art Project; Unified Vailsburg Services Organization; United Way of Dutchess Orange Region.

Other professional experience: Fellow, National United Way Program on Nonprofit Leadership

Certifications: NeighborWorks Community Leadership and Economic Development Certificate; Leadership Greater Bellevue/Redmond program; Strategic planning - TEI Institute

Babette Baker has over 30 years of experience supporting nonprofits, businesses, and municipalities in program design/development, process facilitation, grants administration, fiscal management, marketing, and program assessment/evaluation, as a consultant and nonprofit professional. Her background includes developing viable economic and community development projects. She has served as a Peer Reviewer for federal, state, and local government (New York, Oklahoma, and New Jersey) and several foundations in areas including education, community engagement, health care, youth programming, homeless programming, AIDS/HIV, public art, economic development, and housing. She also spent five years at Edison Schools, one of the largest charter school management companies in the country, serving in several management positions including Director of Community Engagement and Director of Operational Support. She has managed multiple profit/loss units, engaged ethnically and linguistically diverse communities around educational issues, and provided operational support for over 25 charter schools around the country.

Babette holds a BA in English with a minor in African/American Studies from Colgate University, and has completed coursework in the Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation Program at Syracuse University.