Erica Joy Baker (born 1980)[2] is an engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area, Chief Technology Officer for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and known for her outspoken support of diversity and inclusion.

[4][5][6][7][8] She gained prominence in 2015 for starting an internal spreadsheet where Google employees reported their salary data to better understand pay disparities within the company.

[13][14] She says she was one of the only two Black people in one of her core classes, and decided to transfer to the University of Alaska earning an Associate of Applied Science degree in Information Technology.

Baker's first job was as a Windows Domain Administrator for the University of Alaska Statewide Systems at the age of 21 years.

[6][20] In February 2016, Baker, Megan Anctil, Kiné Camara, and Duretti Hirpa accepted TechCrunch's Crunchies award on behalf of Slack for Fastest Rising Startup.

Baker was critical of Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff's remarks that suggested that inclusion efforts for ethnic and racial minorities were taking a backseat so that the company could focus on gender issues.

"[23] She also denounced a video series by Elissa Shevinsky, the author of Lean Out, stating that it only addressed the diversity problem superficially.

[24] Baker, along with Tracy Chou, Freada Kapor Klein and Ellen Pao, was one of the founding members of Project Include, a startup launched in 2016 to provide diversity and inclusion strategies to client companies.

[26][27] In January 2017, Baker was a keynote speaker at the Women of Color in Computing conference held by Mills College.

[15] Baker was also a featured speaker for a Berkeley Center for New Media panel and The Wall Street Journal's Women in the Workplace Forum both in October 2018.