Kevin L. Antoine, JD
Kevin LaVigne Antoine, JD
Associate Vice President for Student and Veteran Affairs/Chief Diversity Officer
Kevin LaVigne Antoine, JD, is the Associate Vice President for Student and Veteran Affairs and Chief Diversity Officer at Bucks County Community College in Pennsylvania. A former Fulbright Specialist Scholar, Dr. Antoine earned his law degree from the College of William & Mary School of Law and completed a one-year Fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health, researching discrimination in healthcare.
He attended Mississippi Gulf Coast Jr. College Perkinston Campus for a year and transferred to and graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi on an Air Force ROTC Scholarship. As an undergraduate at Southern Miss, he was the first African American elected Vice President of Student Government and President of the Student Senate at a predominantly white college in Mississippi.
Dr. Antoine served as a Captain in the United States Air Force's NORAD Command as an air battle manager, controlling fighter aircraft in air combat training and missions, intercepting hostile aircraft approaching North American air space, conducting air refueling, and search and rescue missions.
He returned to Mississippi and worked in local government before entering politics. In 1996, at age 37, he was the first African American to win a political party's nomination to the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi's former majority-white 4th Congressional District. After leaving politics, he made a career in higher education as college vice president and professor for twenty years at New York and Pennsylvania colleges.
Dr. Antoine is also the author of the best-selling book New Black Power: A Memoir of Kevin LaVigne Antoine. The book chronicles his parents' involvement in the civil rights movement in Mississippi and his history-making campaign for the United States Congress in Mississippi's majority-white Fourth Congressional District. New Black Power is available on Amazon.
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