Malakia Silcott
Joyce Cummings Center, Room 390
177 College Ave, Medford, MA
Biography
Malakia focuses on early career engagement programs, individual career advising, and teaches a course on Personal Career Development. Her background has included working with traditional and non-traditional aged students at commuter and residential colleges throughout Massachusetts, including Bunker Hill Community College, MIT, Northeastern, and Brandeis University. She is the child of immigrants from Montserrat, West Indies, and she has a particular interest in studying the college adjustment, academic retention, and career development strategies of first-generation college students, women in underrepresented careers, and international students.
Malakia holds a Master of Science degree in College Student Development and Counseling from Northeastern University, and prior to her graduate studies, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts in African American Studies from Oberlin College. In her spare time, she enjoys tennis, reading books on personal finance, and attending dance and music performances.