Telaekah Brooks is passionate about making and enabling change in underserved communities, through community economic development, education, and training. Before her tenure at the National Association of Black Accountants, where she created deep programmatic connections with corporate partners, she spent five years sourcing and managing capacity building investments in youth serving nonprofits and government agencies at Venture Philanthropy
Partners. She is a skilled fundraiser and leader who also spent more than 15 years in higher education creating and executing education and training programs for minority and nontraditional student populations. She has also been a strategic advisor to corporate and nonprofit executives for more than 20 years.

Notable accomplishments include:

• Designing and implementing a federally recognized (USDOL) Apprenticeship Program for Accounting Technicians with Howard University’s Center for Accounting Excellence, Accenture and CliftonLarsenAllen

• Co-managed the Ready for Work: Champions for Career and College Ready Graduates in Prince George’s County, a 6 year, $10 million investment in the County’s youth.

• Co-designed and managed the Advancing Early Education Collaborative, an AdvancingCities 2021 Award from JP Morgan Chase to provide education & training for African American and Latina early learning educators and disrupt broken the business model of early learning centers

• Obtained recognition for Excelsior College’s (now University) workforce training programs with the DC Higher Education Licensure Commission

• Designing and delivering new academic and workforce programs across the DMV Region

Telaekah graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, with a specialty in Law, Criminology and Deviance from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctorate from the Howard University School of Law.