Dr. Kiki Baker Barnes is set to take over as the first Black woman commissioner of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference, a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics conference made up of historically Black colleges and universities. For the past two and a half years, she has worked in the position on an interim basis while also remaining committed to Dillard as AD according to TheGrio.com
Dr. Kiki Baker Barnes has served as the athletic director of Dillard University for the past 16 years, but now, she is moving on to the next chapter of her career
Her official naming now makes the Minden-raised former University of New Orleans star athlete one of only four Black women in the country in that esteemed position. She already blazed trails as the first female and first Black commissioner of the NAIA, and she was the lone female athletic director in the state of Louisiana.
