Ann Voorhees Baker, owner
Ann Voorhees Baker is a marketing and public relations expert with over 20 years’ experience representing a wide range of clients, including a number of green and health-based products and services and causes for the betterment of the environment, education, health care, parenting, and social justice. She is also a voice actress and has done voiceovers for videos, commercials, and audiobooks.
Public Relations clients past and present include Sharp Electronics Solar Energy Division, The Nature Conservancy, Office Depot Green, Lexus Environmental Programs, HealthSpace Cleveland, Beachhead Solutions, Beech Brook, Digital Map Products, the Early Childhood and Prenatal Initiatives of Cuyahoga County, Enigma, PureAyre, and the Association of Unity Churches.
Before relocating to her native Los Angeles to head Publicity Pros, Ann served as Director of Communication and Marketing for a public school district in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Prior to that she launched and for fifteen years published the award-winning Cleveland Family and Akron Family magazines and headed the successful public interest communications firm, Hearth Marketing & Media, Inc. During that time she also served on the Board of Directors and as President of Earth Day Coalition – a long-established nonprofit environmental advocacy and education organization serving Northeast Ohio. Early in her career, Ann practiced law as an enforcement attorney for the Region II office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in New York City. She also performed editing services for Scribner’s, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, and Prentice-Hall.
Her published articles include a case study in crisis management, published in the PR News Crisis Management Guidebook, and a discussion of marketing to the economically disadvantaged, published on marketingcrossing.com. She currently authors the PR Insider News Cafe and the PR Expert Blog for the national women entrepreneur’s networking organization, Savor the Success.
Ann holds a BS in cybernetics from UCLA and a JD from Case Western Reserve University School of Law. She and her husband Brad Baker live in Redondo Beach and her two adult daughters, Sarah and Hannah, both live in New York City.
