Meet the Staff

Pamela Churchill

Director of Development

(860) 408-4256

Year Appointed: 2010

Trinity College - M.A.

University of Connecticut - B.S.

pchurchill [at] ethelwalker [dot] org

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Pamela Churchill has been in the field of non-profit leadership for over 20 years, raising tens of millions of dollars for not-for-profits in Connecticut. Before she became Director of Development for Ethel Walker School she was President of Churchill and Associates, focusing on capacity building and capital campaigns for non-profit organizations and schools. Previously, she was the Administrative Director and Vice President of Development and Marketing for the Learning Corridor Campus in Hartford. She was an adjunct professor at the University of Connecticut, where she taught Development and Marketing for non-profits. Before she chose to move into the non-profit field, Churchill had a successful career in sales.

Churchill has served on many non-profit Boards in the greater-Hartford area, and regularly trains Boards on a Board of Director’s Role in Fundraising. She has a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Trinity College, and a BS from UConn. Churchill has received many professional development and marketing awards, including Eight Remarkable Women in Business in Greater Hartford and 40 under Forty from the Hartford Business Journal, and national fund-development awards. She is a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum in Hartford and presently lives in downtown Hartford.

Sandra Baker

Director of Advancement Services

(860) 408-4257

Year Appointed: 1996

Briarwood College - A.A.

Sbaker [at] ethelwalker [dot] org

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Sandra Baker is the Director of Advancement Services and has been a member of the development office for 15 years, serving in various capacities: first as Assistant Director of Alumnae Relations, Campaign Coordinator, and then Director of Research, where she implemented Walker's first formal research program. Her career in Development began over 20 years ago, where she learned her craft from the ground up. Prior to coming to Walker's, she worked at Miss Porter's School and the Roper Hospital Foundation in Charleston, SC, where she also implemented their research program and instituted their first data base. Baker was then promoted to the Associate Director of Annual Giving, raising monies for community outreach.

Sandra Baker believes strongly in the magic that is The Ethel Walker School!