Jen Baker Navy Pilot to College Athletic Director

Jen Baker is the Director of Athletics and Recreation at Johns Hopkins University. One of her key initiatives at Johns Hopkins has been the launching of a unique leadership development program for Johns Hopkins student athletes called Blue Jays LEAD.  The Blue Jays LEAD program has a mission of empowering student-athletes to actualize the leader within and inspire action in their communities at Johns Hopkins and beyond.  

 

Baker is a co-founder of Athletics Leadership Consulting (ALC), whose mission is to make leadership development accessible to all athletes, coaches and organizational support staff.  ALC leverages athletics as a tool for leadership education as it designs and delivers original content that allows athletes to develop leadership and teamwork skills as an integrated component of their competitive experience.

Baker graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a degree in aerospace engineering and was a member of the Academy’s women’s lacrosse club team.  After the Naval Academy, Baker spent seven years in the Navy, including three years as a pilot and four as a construction manager and facilities engineer.  She later earned an MBA and a master’s in mechanical engineering from Cornell.