Michelle Baker

Michelle Baker

EVP, Managing Director of Corporate Strategic Initiatives - Ketchum

Michelle Baker is a communications expert with experience working with major corporate, government and nonprofit stakeholders. With a broad understanding of today’s complex brands across brands and sectors, Michelle crafts ground-breaking corporate initiatives and builds diverse collaborations to address many of today’s most pressing challenges.

She works with companies, government agencies, nonprofits, biopharmaceutical companies and foundations to address gaps in key issues including health equity, DE&I issues and workforce wellbeing. She has extensive experience in mental health, healthcare access, workforce diversity and disability inclusion.

An advocate for family caregiving and memory care, Baker is on the board of the Caregiver’s Action Network (CAN) and Arts for the Aging (AFTA) promoting therapeutic art programing for patients with dementia. Michelle is co-chair of the telehealth committee of the Federal Communications Bar Association where she focuses on how telemedicine fosters improved health outcomes and access across underserved populations.