Sabrina Brooks, PECO’s Director of Customer Strategy and Governance and a board member at the African American Museum in Philadelphia, has been named to City and State Pennsylvania’s 2024 Above & Beyond list of women blazing new trails across the Commonwealth.

“This year’s edition features women whose grassroots arts and cultural organizations have become powerful engines for economic development and social justice — and others whose skills … make them powerful change-makers,” writes Hilary Danailova. “What all these women have in common is the power to inspire.”

Brooks joined PECO as an accountant in 1999 and — having had the opportunity to put her “fingerprints on various aspects of the organization” — has since enjoyed a unique kind of professional growth throughout her quarter-century career with the utility.

The various positions she’s held at PECO — including Manager of Strategic Business Planning and Budgets, Operations Lead for the COO, and Manager of Marketing, among others — have enabled her to see how energy goes hand-in-hand with relationships.

Working alongside then-COO Mike Innocenzo gave Brooks a close-up perspective of the electrical systems and its engineers.

“He paved the way for me to become more strategic by looking at the company from a different viewpoint,” said Brooks, who earned both a bachelor’s degree in Accounting and an MBA from Widener University.

Amidst the challenges of the pandemic, she was tasked with enhancing PECO’s workforce development initiatives. Collaborating with 10 community groups and nonprofit organizations, she led a project aimed at linking unemployed and underemployed people in the community with available positions at the utility.

Since 2014, Brooks has been a board member at the African American Museum in Philadelphia, which was founded in 1976 in celebration of the nation’s Bicentennial. AAMP brings diverse communities together in greater appreciation of the Black experience through the combined narrative of art, culture, and historical witness.

Read more about the women blazing new trails across the Commonwealth at City and State Pennsylvania.