“Whereas, Tiffany Baker, founder of The Empowerment Center and respected community leader, child advocate, and entrepreneur, has brought credit and distinction to herself through her career and civic achievements and has significantly improved the quality of life within the local community and beyond through her efforts, and it is appropriate at this time to highlight her many accomplishments and extend to her special honors and the highest commendations, and

Whereas, a true model of resilience, Tiffany Baker began formulating her vision during her days as a foster youth, when, at age 18, she made the decision to adopt her two younger sisters out of an unsafe home environment, completely transforming the face of her family and interrupting its negative trajectory, with her humanitarian and relational approach to her own family and others who crossed her path becoming the blueprint for the next two decades of work as a hospital chaplain, pastor, child advocate, and government board and commission chair, and

Whereas, In 2005, Tiffany founded The Empowerment Center in Temecula, a center that operates as a safe place for youth and families to overcome their adversities through resilience-building and strengths-based solutions, serving group homes, school districts, public and private agencies, and Native American tribes as a community hub for nonprofit organizations and agencies to form valuable community partnerships and receive professional development; and

Whereas, Currently chairing the City of Temecula’s inaugural Race, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Commission and the Community Action Partnership of Riverside County, Tiffany partners with policymakers to bring a humanitarian approach to policy that has a positive impact on youth and families, and her advocacy efforts are felt at the local, state, and federal levels; and

Whereas, the contributions that Tiffany Baker has made to the people of the State of California have been invaluable, and her service and dedicated leadership have left a lasting legacy of hope and resilience for the youth and families of Temecula, Riverside, and San Diego counties and beyond; and now, therefore, be it

Resolved by Assemblymembers Marie Waldron and Kelly Seyarto, that Tiffany Baker be extended deep appreciation for her advocacy efforts on behalf of the unseen and the underserved–the children, society’s most vulnerable members.”

Members Resolution No. 1241

Signed by:

Honorable Marie Waldron, 75th Assembly District

Honorable Kelly Seyarto, 67th Assembly District