Trish Baker is the Sr. Director - Extended Education and Interim Associate Provost – Community Outreach and Economic Development at Utah Valley University. In her role she provides direction for Concurrent Enrollment, Career & Technical Education, Workforce Development and Articulated Programs, Executive and Professional Education, Community Education, UVU’s satellite campuses, and the Business Resource Center. With her team, she builds and oversees community relationships that help to create student pathways and economic development in the Mountainland Region. She is a native of Scotland but has lived and worked in Utah and New Hampshire since 2005.

Trish has worked as a corporate training manager in the Scottish Court Service, and as learning and development manager and policy analyst in the University of Utah’s Center for Public Policy and Administration. She also spent several years at Southern New Hampshire University, where she led a team of curriculum and assessment analysts.

Trish is an advocate for open and equitable access to education, creating articulated pathways, and student success, as exemplified in her work on articulation agreements with various technical colleges across the state.

She is a real music lover, and in her free time, she sings in a community choir and attends as many performing arts performances as possible – or at least she did before the pandemic. She also loves kayaking and riding ATVs with her two young and energetic boys.