Is a trusted business advisor to iconic branded businesses and has served as an operations focused C-suite executive reporting to the Board of Directors. She is Assistant General Counsel with S&P Global, Inc. Janet is an experienced corporate and commercial attorney with expertise in information privacy and cybersecurity. She was a 2022 Fellow of the Economic Club of New York. She is a thought leader and won 2nd Place in the 2022 Inaugural Economic Club of New York’s Innovation and Social Impact Challenge. Her White Paper was entitled, Unleashing the Power of Climate Markets Will Drive Privacy ESG Risks: Is Your Board Seeing the Iceberg? She began her legal career in private practice in the corporate, finance, and securities departments of Dickstein Shapiro and Verner Liipfert (now DLA Piper).
Previously, Janet served as Executive Director of The Links, Inc., an international non-governmental organization (NGO), and is a member of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., a national organization for Black parents and children. Janet has received a Special Achievement Award from the U.S. Department of Justice. Janet is a resident of Washington, D.C., and summer resident of Oak Bluffs, where she is a member of the Cottagers, Inc. Janet’s Oak Bluffs family roots extend for nearly 30 years. She appeared on Voice of America, “Next Steps with Chris Meeks” and was S&P’s 2021 Juneteenth Day Speaker discussing her father’s, LTC (Ret.) William Baker, book. The Brownsville Redemption: Theodore Roosevelt’s Wrongful Disgrace of the All-Black 25th Infantry in Brownsville, Texas, 1906.