Antrece L. Baggett, Ed.D.

Dr. Antrece L. Baggett, a fourth-generation educator and domestic violence advocate, is the Houston Community College, Southeast College interim college operations officer. She oversees the Southeast College’s budgets, facilities, and business office. She has served HCC since 1995 in a variety of positions including faculty, Director of Africana African American and Women and Gender Studies programs, HCC Foundation Vice Chair of Fundraising, and Faculty Senate President, 2021-2022 where she represented 2,900 instructors on the Chancellor’s Executive Council.

Dr. Baggett is a member of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Harris County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council, Texas Council on Family Violence, and a charter member of the Houston Community College chapter of the American Association for Women in Community Colleges.

Dr. Baggett is a lifetime member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and a charter member of the Greater Pearland Area (TX) Chapter of the Links Incorporated where she serves as the chapter’s third president.

She serves on alumni advisory boards for Texas Southern University, College of Liberal Arts and Behavioral Science and Ferris State University, Doctorate in Community College Leadership.

Dr. Baggett, a native Mississippian, received her Bachelor of Arts (History) from Texas Southern University, Master of Arts (History) from the University of Mississippi, and Doctorate in Community College Leadership from Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan.

Her doctoral dissertation explores the “Gulf Coast Region Title IX Committee: A Coordinated Community Higher Education Response Model for Student Safety and Success”. This eleven-member college and university committee navigates Texas Senate Bill 212 and House Bill 1735 by establishing best practices for college students and employees who are victims of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, harassment, and stalking.

After decades of collaboration with leaders in Houston’s Domestic Violence Movement and volunteering with organizations that support victims, she took a leap of faith and opened A. L. Mingo Services LLC. An intimate partner violence firm that focuses on open, honest, healing conversations with domestic violence survivors hiding in plain sight.

Dr. Baggett is the wife of Terrence Medearis and has a blended family of five adult children, one son-in-law, four grandchildren, and a rambunctious fur baby. She is the daughter of a United States Air Force veteran and Houston Independent School District retired educator and character education facilitator. She is a member of Shepherd of the Heart United Methodist Church.