“Amelia Brooks is the kind of student who makes every room she enters better,” says Associate Director, SVP Projects Rachel Schrottman. That is exactly the type of person you want on your human resources team. After she receives her Bachelor of Science in business with a concentration in management, Amelia will move to New York City and work in human resources.
Until then, Northeastern can reap the benefits of Amelia’s active role in the community. She has been a leader for all her years here, moderating and hosting university events, supporting large-scale initiatives, including international treks and leadership summits, and creating spaces for younger students to build confidence, ask questions and grow into leadership roles.
Amelia has been a lead peer mentor in the Summer Bridge program, social media manager and assistant in the DMSB Graduate Career Center, director of operations for the Black Business Student Association, and even a podcast producer for the DMSB “Careers in Action” podcast. However, Amelia’s involvement with the Women’s Interdisciplinary Society of Entrepreneurship (WISE) has been most significant to both Northeastern and to her personally.
As the longest-standing WISE Executive Board member—and current co-president—Amelia has provided continuity and sustained leadership, expanding WISE to Northeastern’s London and Oakland campuses. “I had the opportunity to build these communities from the ground up at a time when this level of expansion was still new at Northeastern.” She visited both locations and immersed herself in the community, developing tailored programing and building leadership structures that felt authentic to those students. Amelia says, “The goal was not just to grow WISE geographically, but to create spaces where more students could feel a sense of belonging, confidence, and opportunity.”
Amelia has proven her commitment to inclusion time and again. In 2024, she received the Impact Award, DMSB, presented to students who make a positive impact to the Office of Student Engagement, Affinity and Inclusion’s mission to cultivate an inclusive culture in the school.
Amelia has demonstrated the same commitment to academic excellence. She participated in a global purpose and inclusion co-op at Wayfair. She transformed the end-to-end new-hire orientation process and designed and implemented a new onboarding structure for a co-op with Immuta. Most recently, she was a talent management and organizational development intern at Dow Jones in New York. During her 10 weeks there, she developed a talent strategy workshop for People Business Partners, built an end-to-end, scalable global skills taxonomy and career mapping framework across all Dow Jones job families, and designed a proprietary AI-enabled workflow using Gemini to generate skills taxonomies and career maps in as few as 15 minutes per job family.
“We can always count on her to share her positivity and help make an impact,” Rachel Schrottman says. Undoubtedly, Amelia will do the same in her future career.
