Southeast Raleigh community leader charged with embezzling nearly $100,000
A Southeast Raleigh community leader faces criminal charges of embezzling money from a non-profit group she led.
Raleigh Police charged Kia Eugenia Baker, 41, on May 14 with felony embezzlement of $99,564 from The Resiliency Collaborative, a Raleigh-based group that helps students of color. IRS filings show that Baker had been listed as the group’s co-executive director.
The group now lists the other co-executive director as its interim executive director.
The arrest warrant says the money was embezzled Dec. 19, 2022. Baker was released from the Wake County jail on a $10,000 unsecured bond.
Group wants a more ‘equitable’ Wake County
The Resiliency Collaborative did not return The News & Observer’s voicemail message on Thursday requesting comment.
Baker could not be immediately reached for comment Thursday.
Baker grew up in Southeast Raleigh and now lives in Knightdale. From 2015 to 2021, she was executive director of Southeast Raleigh Promise, a non-profit group trying to break the cycle of inter-generational poverty in the area.
She would later join the Resiliency Collaborative, which describes its mission as partnering with youth who are black, indigenous and other people of color “to strengthen their sense of identity, belonging, and purpose so they can create a healthier, more equitable Wake County.”
