Martha Baker

Martha Baker is the founder of Equity in Education and Employment and a consultant to and on the steering committee of the NY Paid Family Leave Insurance Campaign. A former executive director and CEO at Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW), Baker authored the report "Vocational Education: Opportunities for Young Women." While at NEW, Baker was appointed to the City's Department of Education Steering Committee to Restructure Career Technical Education. In 2007, Baker coordinated a conference focusing on integrating women into the building, construction and allied trades industries. Baker has also worked as the deputy director of operations at the New York State Workers Compensation Board and served in the Dinkins administration as the executive director of the Commission on the Status of Women, where she coordinated a year-long study on sexual harassment and published works on preventing it at college campuses and in the municipal workplace. Baker is a recipient of the Susan B. Anthony Leadership Award and a founding board member of the Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Committee. She and her husband live in Fresh Meadows and have two adult children, who were educated in the Queens public school system.