Natasha Baker is a partner at Hirschfeld Kraemer, LLP in the fi rm’s San Francisco offi ce. She specializes in higher education, with an emphasis on student affairs, governance, accreditation, mergers and labor and employment law. She regularly advises and trains institutions of higher education on Title IX and Investigations. She is the co-founder of Title IX ASAP – a training program
for campus administrators and regularly tweets Title IX updates and resources at @titleixasap. She is the Chair of the Higher Education Council of the Employment Law Alliance, where she is also on the Board. She has authored several amicus briefs to the United States Supreme Court (Fisher I & II), the Ninth Circuit (State of Washington vs. Trump) and to the National Labor Relations Board on issues affecting institutions of higher education. She frequently speaks for the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and other higher education associations.
She is a past member of the NACUA Board of Directors and served on several NACUA committees, including the Committee on Board Operations, the Committee on Program for Annual Conference, and
the Committee on Legal Education. She has attended NACUA live programs every year since 2006 and has been a presenter at more than 20 conferences and workshops. She is also an instructor for the NACUA online course on conducting effective internal investigations.
Natasha received her B.S. from Tufts University and earned her J.D. at the University of Maine School of Law in 2003.
In the words of one of her colleagues, Natasha’s “record of work and service in support of NACUA, compiled in less than a decade, is most admirable and provides motivation to other new members to contribute early and often…She has distinguished herself as a skilled higher education
attorney who models the NACUA core values at all times.”
NACUA is pleased to recognize Natasha J. Baker as a recipient of this year’s First Decade Award for her outstanding service to the Association and to the practice of higher education law during her fi rst ten years of membership.