Carmen A. Baker is a library services specialist with the Miami-Dade Public Library System. She has more than 20 years of experience in youth services, programming, and general librarianship, and manages the MDPLS local author series and fair, which won a 2020 National Association of Counties (NACo) achievement award. Baker has also received the SEFLIN Summit award for developing programming for infants and the visually impaired, and has represented MDPLS internationally by hosting early literacy workshops at libraries in Medellin, Colombia, and Madrid.