Carrie N. Baker

Carrie N. Baker is an American lawyer, Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor of American Studies, and Chair of the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She teaches courses on gender, law, public policy, and feminist activism and is affiliated with the American Studies program, the archives concentration, and the public policy minor. She co-founded and is a former co-director of the certificate in Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice Program offered by the Five College Consortium.

Baker has published four books: The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and Sexual Harassment Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2020) and Public Feminisms: From Academy to Community, edited with Aviva Dove-Viebahn. Lever Press, 2023.

Baker has a monthly column in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. She also writes for ''Ms''. Magazine and co-chair of the ''Ms''. Committee of Scholars, which connects academic scholarship to feminist public writing. She is a former president and is now on the advisory board of the Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts. She is a board member of Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts. Provided by Wikipedia