​WRITER | EDITOR | STORYTELLER | STRATEGIST

Chelsey Baker-Hauck is a publications and advancement communications specialist with nearly 20 years of integrated brand marketing and communications experience focused on nonprofit organizations and higher education.

She most recently served as senior director of marketing for Metropolitan State University of Denver and executive editor of Metropolitan Denver Magazine. Prior, she was editorial director at the University of Denver, where she also served as managing editor of the University of Denver Magazine. Her advancement experience includes constituent relations and fundraising communications for campaigns ranging from $60 million to $500 million.

Chelsey's work has been recognized with numerous awards for advertising, writing, editing, art direction and magazine excellence, including recognition from the International Academy of Communications Arts and Sciences, National Federation of Press Women, National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators, and CASE. Professional affiliations include the Public Relations Society of America and the Society of Professional Journalists, where she serves as a judge for the national Mark of Excellence awards program.

An avid outdoors-woman and self-described science geek, Chelsey worked in archaeology to pay her way through college. She studied archaeology at the University of Wyoming and holds a B.A. in journalism, geography and anthropology from the University of Denver. She also earned an M.A. in journalism and a master’s certificate in environmental policy from the University of Colorado.

Chelsey spends much of her free time rescuing and rehabilitating dogs and devising ways to keep her charges out of her prized organic garden. She’s also rehabilitating a 1904 Victorian home in northwest Denver, where she’s lived since 1999.