Brooke L. Travers

Brooke Travers is currently the Internship Placement Manager for NPower, where she works to connect young adults in Baltimore with internships in the IT field after they have completed a 15-week training, during which they earn their CompTIA A+ certification. She also assists in the organization of NPower's Professional Development Speaker Series, and manages volunteer recruitment and events.

She is the former Director of Youth Support at the Inner Harbor Project, a youth-led non-profit in downtown Baltimore. She provided academic and social/emotional support to IHP's Youth Leaders, and is trained in trauma informed care and in working with young people with incarcerated parents. She led college trips, piloted a financial advisor program, and recruited and coordinated all volunteers. She has contributed to the creation of a 12 week Youth Leadership course, and managed one adult staff member, the Assistant Director of Youth Support. She worked with him to advance his own knowledge and understanding of the issues facing youth in Baltimore today.

Prior to being promoted to Director of Youth Support, she was the youth coordinator at the Inner Harbor Project where she facilitated a team of 25 teens from across the city. In addition to providing youth leaders with the tools and support systems they need to succeed in their work and lives, Brooke also developed a curriculum for others to replicate the Inner Harbor Project training model.

Brooke Travers was admitted to and matriculated at Elizabethtown College in 2006 after graduating with top honors from Aberdeen High School in Aberdeen, MD. She enrolled as a Secondary Education major with a concentration in Social Studies. She had always participated in community outreach programs, so it was easy to jump into Elizabethtown’s service learning culture.

Brooke graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science and Honors in Education in 2010. She then worked for Harford County Public Schools in Maryland from 2010-2012 as a teacher in the Alternative Education Program. While there, she taught ninth through twelfth grade.

In August of 2012, she accepted a new position teaching at New Hope Academy in Baltimore, MD. The program is part of Specialized Education Services, Inc, and services students with disabilities through personalized interventions. At NHA, Brooke organized cultural awareness days and implemented service learning projects.

Brooke became a teacher at Center City Public Charter Schools Trinidad Campus in Washington, D.C. in 2013. She taught sixth, seventh and eighth grade students. Brooke was the coordinator of the educational environment of the Middle School Academy and was the Art Club advisor before she came to the Inner Harbor Project.