Naomi Baer (she/her)
Chief Operating Officer
Naomi Baer is the chief operating officer at Activate, focused on building and refining the business operations critical to scaling Activate. Before joining Activate, Baer designed and led programs for social entrepreneurs as the practitioner-in-residence at the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. She also served as chief operating officer and vice president of programs at Net Impact, a non-profit helping individuals leverage business skills for social impact. Additionally, she went from early employee to executive team member at Kiva, an international financial inclusion non-profit that grew substantially during her seven-year tenure. Baer is a certified Portuguese-to-English translator and holds an executive degree from Stanford and a B.A. from Brown University.