CAROLYN L. BAKER has spent decades working and investing in her native Los Angeles as a senior executive in the nonprofit sector. A former adjunct professor in the community college system, Baker earned a graduate degree in Organizational Development from Northern Arizona University and began a thirty year executive career in nonprofit settings as wide-ranging as Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles, to the West Los Angeles Veterans Campus, to the Clinton Global Initiative. Baker, currently a doctoral student at the University of Southern California, is the author of the award-winning book, An Unintentional Accomplice: A Personal Perspective on White Responsibility (2020), and Dispatches, From Racial Divide to the Road of Repair, A Collection of Essays (2023).