Baker Harrell

Dr. Baker Harrell’s background and expertise in new media, social movement theory, and health marketing drive the efforts of the nonprofit organization, IT’S TIME TEXAS. In less than three years, IT’S TIME TEXAS has become the preeminent community health organization in the Lone Star State. This year, IT’S TIME TEXAS will impact the health of more than 1 million Texans in over 50 communities across the state.

Baker’s prior ventures in the public health arena have received the Best Practices Health and Fitness Award from the Texas Department of State Health Services and a Most Promising Initiative award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Before founding IT’S TIME TEXAS, Baker completed a Master’s in Health Education with a concentration in childhood obesity. His philosophy of empowering people to initiate pro-social change is demonstrated throughout IT’S TIME TEXAS’ efforts and supported by Baker’s interdisciplinary, doctoral research, which focused on social change approaches to improve population health.