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| Name | Melodie Baker |
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Clarence, New York , United States |
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| Info | Melodie Baker is an education and health care policy expert who has a record of bringing people together to solve problems and improve lives.
The granddaughter of rural Texas sharecroppers, Melodie’s family moved to the Buffalo area during a blizzard when she was three years old. Her father was a carpenter who became a pastor and her mother ran a daycare. Melodie learned to work with her hands at an early age, helping to build the family home on the East Side of Buffalo.
Melodie overcame literacy challenges after the Buffalo schools were integrated and recognized education as the great equalizer and creator of opportunity. She dedicated her career to advocating for education policy and health care access to lift up underserved urban and rural communities.
After working her way through Buffalo State College, Melodie earned a master’s degree in executive leadership from Daemen College and an advanced graduate certificate in applied statistical analysis from the University of Buffalo.
Melodie has spent the last 14 years forging solutions that expand access to quality education and affordable health care. Beginning as an Assistant Director for a Head Start program, she has earned local and national recognition for her work and given keynote addresses on education policy for the U.S. Department of Education.
Currently serving as the Director of Education for the United Way of Buffalo & Erie County, Chair of the Erie-Niagara Birth to 8 Coalition, and the Co-Chair of RaisingNY, Melodie also runs her own small policy firm where she conducts research and evaluation for governments and nonprofit organizations, including the NY State Department of Health.
Melodie is also active in her father’s church and coaches girls’ youth basketball. Married for 17 years to Derek Baker, a beloved middle school principal, she is the proud mother of five, Djai, Derek, Kristian, Brenton, and Michelle Baker.
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