Catherine Baker-Wingfield

At Johns Hopkins, Catherine Baker-Wingfield is a lecturer in the MA in Communication program where she teaches opinion-writing that is targeted for regional and national publication.

Baker-Wingfield is co-principal and co-owner of EMR Content + Communications, Inc., a boutique public affairs company located in Arlington, Virginia. The firm serves businesses, trade associations, institutions of higher education, large non-profits, and the federal government in a variety of spheres and industries including healthcare, education, materials recycling, defense and veteran affairs, among many others. The company provides internal and external communications for senior-level executives and officials, media campaigns and strategy, op-eds and commentaries, speechwriting, web content, annual reports, white papers, co-leading seminars and workshops on persuasive writing for Capitol Hill fellows and interns, and co-leading in-house communications seminars for corporations and non-profits. EMR clients have included a Fortune 20 healthcare company, American Red Cross, U.S. Department of Labor and the National Institutes of Health, Military Child Education Coalition, Collaborative for Student Success, Business Software Alliance, Cornell University, and the University of Minnesota.

Previously a senior trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, Baker-Wingfield worked in the appellate, litigation, intelligence, and policy units of the Narcotics Section. During her time with the Department, she wrote position papers, talking points and speeches for Department officials, including the Attorney General and Deputy Assistant Attorney General. She has federal litigation experience, has drafted numerous appellate briefs, and has argued before the Circuit Courts of Appeal.

Prior to working for the Department of Justice, Baker-Wingfield completed a clerkship with the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. She began her law career in the United Kingdom where she attended law school and completed her training as an Associate with Theodore Goddard (now Addleshaw Goddard), a corporate law firm based in London. Baker is a member of The Virginia Bar Association and a (currently inactive) solicitor in the UK.

Additionally, Baker-Wingfield is an arts critic and has reviewed opera and theater in Washington, D.C., for more than two decades. She served by invitation on the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s annual Emery Battis Award for Acting Excellence Panel from 2015 through 2018. In her free time, she gives back to the community as a Virginia Supreme Court-certified mediator, mentor, and trainer.

Baker-Wingfield holds a BA in art history from New York University, a J.D. (equivalent) from the College of Law in the United Kingdom and an LL.M. in International Law from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she graduated with distinction.