Baker to Join Office of News and Public Affairs

Sally A. Baker, director of communications at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, has been named assistant director of news and public affairs at Harvard University. As a Harvard University spokesperson, she will take primary responsibility for public communication for Harvard College and the more than 600 full-time faculty of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Harvard's largest academic division. Harvard College, part of the FAS, has approximately 6,600 undergraduates and was founded in 1636.

In her nine years at Colby, Baker has had wide and increasing responsibility for developing Colby's media relations and publications programs. Prior to joining the Colby staff, she was news editor for Africa News Service, a national biweekly on African affairs, and before that, worked in the promotions department of the San Francisco Examiner. A Cape Elizabeth, Maine, native, Baker graduated magna cum laude from Duke University with a degree in history.

She will begin her duties at Harvard in mid-September.