Kiki Baker Barnes

Kiki Baker Barnes is an American college athletics administrator and former women's college basketball coach. She is the commissioner of the HBCU Athletic Conference (HBCUAC)—formerly known as the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC)—a position she has held since 2022. Barnes served as the athletic director at Dillard University in New Orleans from 2006 and 2022 and as the head women's basketball coach at the school from 2006 to 2013.

Early life and education Barnes grew up in Minden, Louisiana. In 1995, she completed an associate degree in telecommunications from South Plains College. In 1997, she earned a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of New Orleans. Later in 2001, she completed a master's degree in communications with a concentration in public relations from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Career Barnes held positions as an assistant basketball coach at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and afterward as an assistant basketball coach at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Frank Phillips College in Borger, Texas. She also served as the head basketball coach and spirit coordinator at Southern University at Shreveport. Before assuming her role as the athletic director, she served as an assistant women's basketball coach at the university. During her tenure at Dillard, Barnes reestablished the men's and women's basketball programs and the women's volleyball team.

In 2009, she became the President of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC),

Awards and recognition 2011, 2014, 2015 & 2021 Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Athletic Director of the Year