Caroline A. Baker has had a very diverse professional career, with memberships in seven scientific societies. As an exploration photographer, she has been a photojournalist for an Explorer’s Club flag-carrying expedition in Kenya investigating Maasal oral histories, as well as on a whaling expedition in the Caribbean. She has performed a variety of research projects at the Smithsonian in Paleobiology examining a fossil Tapir from a cave in Virginia, with presentation at an international meeting. She has worked in Entomology with Black Widows, pseudoscorpions, and millipedes and in Botany with medicinal plants of Myanmar. She has raised funds for the National Botanical Garden and has been active with African art research and photography and was a curator at the Warren Robbins Center (beadwork) and assisted Thomas Wheelock with his collection of Burkina Faso sculpture.

Her outdoor sports include sailing and scuba diving in the Caribbean and Pacific islands, spelunking, skeet shooting and hunting. Artistically, she received multiple awards, exhibited her sculpture and photography nationally and internationally from 1996 until 2008, published several articles, undertook coursework at the National Academy of Fine Arts, and was a docent at the Kreeger Museum. She combined her expertise and interests in art and the outdoors by founding and managing the Edith Wharton Design Course for landscaping in Cambridge, MA. She has also served as chaplain at several hospitals in the Washington, DC area.