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Baker worked as a pilot and manager of his family's [[air taxi]] business. He also visits local schools as a motivational lecturer.
Baker lives near his extended family on the coast of the [[Chukchi Sea]] in Kotzebue, Alaska, and has a fish camp/winter cabin 30 mi (50 km) away, across [[Kobuk Lake]]. His son Alex has competed in the [[Junior Iditarod]]. He also has a daughter, Tahayla.
Baker is of [[Inupiat]] and [[American Jews|Jewish]] heritage. His grandmother, Clara Rotman (née Levy), was born in [[Kiana, Alaska]] in 1914. She was born to a Native Alaskan mother and a Jewish father and was raised Jewish and cherished her Jewish heritage.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://reformjudaism.org/alaska-ice-rabbe-cometh |title=Alaska: The Ice Rabbe Cometh |publisher=[[ReformJudaism.org]] |accessdate=2019-10-13}}</ref> In 2011, Baker became the first Jew and the first Inuit to win the Iditarod.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jta.org/2019/03/18/sports/blair-braverman-becomes-first-jewish-woman-to-finish-the-iditarod |title=Blair Braverman becomes first Jewish woman to finish the Iditarod sled dog race |date=18 March 2019 |publisher=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]] |accessdate=2019-10-13}}</ref>
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