Chair's Bio

Ms. Brooks has a Bachelor’s 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.

Telaekah Brooks began her career in economic development as a Executive Assistant
to the Director of the DC Department of Housing and Community Development.
She later became the Marketing and Research Coordinator for the Washington, DC Marketing Center, responsible for the demographic research, data collection, and resource access needed to attract businesses, to the District. Ms. Brooks was the founding director of the Georgia Avenue Business Resource Center, a small
business technical assistance provider and has been the founding Executive Director
of Southeastern University’s Center for Entrepreneurship, where she provides services, training, and education to small and medium- sized businesses, transformational
adults, students, and underserved people in the DC metropolitan area.