Sherry Baker

Sherry Baker (ed@bccrns.ca) has owned and operated a private consulting and counselling practice since 1990. Sherry Baker and Associates offers small business, non-profit and boards support, strategic planning and organizational development. After retiring as the Executive Director of Ishtar Transition Housing Society and Aldergrove Neighbourhood Services, in 2006 she started up 55pluspros.ca, a web-based employment matching service for people over 50 which currently has more than 2,300 registered Job Seekers. She was hired as the Executive Director of the BC Association of Community Response Networks in July 2010.

Sherry has sat and chaired many provincial, regional and local boards over the years. She completed six years as a public member on the Board of Registration for Social Workers and is finishing her third year on the College of Occupational Therapists of BC. She is currently the Chair of the BC Coalition to Eliminate Abuse of Seniors and past chair of the South Fraser Family Court and Youth Justice Committee, as well as a founding Board Member of the Minerva Foundation for B.C. Women. Sherry has been a Rotarian for 18 years and is a member of Soroptimist International of the Langleys. She was awarded the Canada 125 Medal “in recognition of signification contribution to compatriots, community and to Canada” and was also awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship by Rotary International.

Sherry holds a Master of Arts in Applied Behavioral Science from City University in Seattle, a Bachelor of Home Economics from the University of B.C. and a Diploma of Business Administration from Fraser Valley University.