DEPARTMENT

Department Administrator, Sport Management

BIOGRAPHY

Kerri Barber joined the Department of Sport Management as the administrator in 2013, which is when Sport Management became its own stand-alone major. Her duties include managing the day-to-day business administration, handling social media for the department, planning and implementing all departmental events, and serving as the primary contact and information source for the department. Kerri served as the advisor to the student group Rice Sport Business Society (RSBS), for three years, and was the 2018 C.M. and Demaris Hudspeth Endowed Award for Student Life and Clubs recipient for her dedication to RSBS. On campus, Kerri is an active member of the Rice community where she is a staff sponsor of various student clubs and student taught (COLL) courses, was an instructor for the Critical Thinking in Sexuality (CTIS) workshop (2018-2021), and is the Past Founding Chair (2019-2022) for the Rice University Staff Council, which she has recently joined as a member. Kerri also was a Careers at Rice Ambassador and a member of the Human Resources Transformation Team.