TeQuion M. Brookins is a full-time community volunteer and social entrepreneur. After serving several years at the private grantmaking foundation McGregor Fund (Detroit, MI), she was appointed as McGregor’s first director of operations, becoming the 94-year-old foundation's only African American employee to ever hold a director-level position.

Brookins has founded several social enterprises including a business consulting firm specializing in start-up assistance for small, women, and minority-owned entities. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she developed a sanitizing and cleaning company to help make indoor spaces safer for Michigan schools, homes, and small businesses. In 2019 Brookins founded the Minority Freedom Community Fund (MFCF), nonprofit providing pathways to philanthropy for people of color nationwide. Detroit’s entrepreneurial hub TechTown and the Rocket Community Fund featured Brookins and the MFCF in its Innovator Series 2020, which “shines the spotlight” on those who responded creatively and quickly to the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to being named a Comcast Newsmaker.

Brookins earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the College of Wooster with a minor in Africana Studies in 2012. She received dual master’s degrees in Finance and in Business Administration from Walsh College of Business and Accountancy in 2018.