By mid-morning, I’m up and starting my day working either at the Rec Center pool as a lifeguard or at the Bartlett Center as a Multicultural Recruitment intern with the Admissions team.
Lailah T.
Lailah is a student who is interested in seeing and learning about as much of the world as she can. An avid member of several multicultural clubs and organizations like the Black Student Union and the Multicultural Recruitment team under the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, Lailah really loves WPI’s international population and how many opportunities students are given to travel through their courses and projects.
Through her travels, Lailah’s worldview has expanded and she’s developed relationships with people all over the globe, becoming better at working with and understanding people whose cultures are significantly different than her own.
Lailah plans on working for a multinational corporation, and then eventually returning to school to obtain her M.B.A. She wants to empower marginalized communities in the United States and assist in international development of developing countries.

Brooklyn, NY
Professor Adrienne Hall-Phillips, Assistant Professor, School of Business
- Obtaining a master’s in Management and a bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering all within four years at WPI
- Developing relationships with people all over the world and becoming better at working with and understanding people from different backgrounds and cultures
- Office of Multicultural Affairs
- Institute of Industrial Engineers
- Black Student Union
- Office of Undergraduate Admissions - Multicultural Recruitment
- Peer Academic Coach at Academic Resource Center
- WPI Board of Trustees Mentor Program
- Tutor/ Mentor at African Community Education (ACE)