Steven Baker

VP, Marketing and Communications

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Steven Baker is JFF’s vice president of marketing and communications, leading strategies to maximize the impact of our services and advance our vision for improving education and workforce development in America.

Mr. Baker has more than 25 years of management and operational experience across the fields of marketing and communications. Before joining JFF, he served as both a director and a vice president of marketing and communications at Partners HealthCare in Boston, one of the nation’s leading health care systems. While at Partners, he led a two-year rebranding strategy for its non-acute division and developed numerous marketing and communications campaigns for Partners hospitals.

Mr. Baker also served as director of membership services for the Massachusetts Medical Society, publishers of The New England Journal of Medicine. During his tenure, membership in the organization grew by 18 percent and significantly increased in diversity. He began his career in Chicago, where he held marketing and communications roles with several professional associations.

Mr. Baker has been actively involved as a volunteer with a number of AIDS service organizations, most recently serving in development roles for Community Servings and the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts. He also founded the Chicago Chapter of the Names Project and helped organize the first national tour of the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.

Mr. Baker holds a Bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana University.