[2] She wrote articles for the San Jose Mercury News, the Los Angeles Times, the East Bay Express, the Asia Wall Street Journal and the Village Voice.
Starting her international reporting career, she traveled from Hong Kong to India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, Libya and many other countries across Africa.
[2] She was named the Middle East bureau chief for Time in September 2010, and produced breaking news, features, analyses and investigative stories throughout the region.
Baker stayed in the Middle East for four years and maintained contacts with diplomats, politicians, activists and others in order to provide her with the best in-depth on-the-ground reporting.
Baker's most recent stories from earlier this year have been covering Zika, Boko Haram,[6] corruption in military defense spending,[7] and women facing rape in war-ridden Uganda and Congo.
Baker did a series of stories on the "secret war crime" in Africa, which generally is the epidemic of wartime rape that has been plaguing African countries for many years.