Betsy Baker is a board member of In Our Backyard, a new Anchorage nonprofit whose mission is to provide safe interim housing and connections to support services for unhoused senior neighbors. Dr. Baker is an international lawyer whose consulting work on ocean law and Arctic policy builds on 25+ years of experience as an author, consultant, law professor, and most recently as director of an Alaska-based marine science funding organization, the North Pacific Research Board. She is a member of the Polar Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences. Betsy received her J.D. from the University of Michigan and her LL.M. and doctorate in law from Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, where she was an Alexander von Humboldt Chancellor's Fellow. She has taught at Harvard, Minnesota, and Vermont Law Schools. Betsy attends First Covenant Church of Anchorage, served on the municipality’s 2023 task force on sanctioned camps, and previously served on the board of Facing Foster Care in Alaska.

Slides - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2qznqmytgmjemfbtetaby/2024-7-28-In-Our-Backyard.pdf?rlkey=g9di3cu7kahw3zmuv4vc6vdxx&dl=0

In Our Backyard website - https://inourbackyard-ak.org

Text Betsy - 907 787 9496