Smeal Alumni Diversity Award
The Smeal Alumni Diversity Award honors alumni who have demonstrated a commitment to Smeal's goal of being a diverse and mutually supportive community which provides a climate of sensitivity, open-mindedness, and respect.
2012 Award Recipient: Bernice Innocent '06 Management
Innocent is a senior human resources project manager at Lockheed Martin. She is also the founder and CEO of The Berrette Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, that focuses on personal branding for first-generation high school students born of immigrant parents. Innocent participates in community organizations such as The Young and Powerful Group and Young and Powerful for Obama. She also consults with local businesses in the areas of fundraising planning, operations management, and project scheduling. Innocent attended the Smeal college as a Bunton-Waller Fellow. While at Penn State, she co-founded and was the inaugural president of Club Kreyol, which in its first year was named the best Haitian student association of the year by the National Haitian Student Alliance. She also served as president of the Student Minority Advisory and Recruitment Team (SMART). Innocent earned her M.B.A. at The John’s Hopkins Univerisity in 2010. Innocent was born to Haitian immigrant parents and is the eldest of six children.
