Leo Baker (skateboarder)

Leo Baker, formerly known as Lacey Baker, is a goofy-footed American professional skateboarder from Covina, California, born on 24 November 1991 and now based in New York City. Baker is transgender and non-binary and uses he/him and they/them pronouns. He spent a year of early childhood in foster care, started skateboarding at two after watching his foster brothers skate, and picked up his first sponsorship at eleven from Utility Board Shop in La Verne. Around the age of 19 he quit his board sponsor Element while Billabong cut its skate team, and he pursued a degree in graphic design. He released his first full part, Bombshell, through Thrasher Magazine in 2013, won three medals at X Games events in 2013 and 2014, and joined Lisa Whitaker's Meow Skateboards, a brand run by women with an all-female team.