Quinsigamond Community College has hired Rocky Knight as director of its newly launched Auxilium Center for Entrepreneurship.
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Quinsigamond Community College has hired Rocky Knight as director of its newly launched Auxilium Center for Entrepreneurship.
The entrepreneurship hub in downtown Worcester is owned by Beverly-based Rucker Investments, a private equity firm who also owns the Worcester Railers and the Worcester Palladium. Following the announcement of its own launch in January, Auxilium announced in April it would be partnering with QCC to open a separate entrepreneurship hub.
“Rocky brings robust experience as an entrepreneur and an educator, and she is well-connected within the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem,” Kathy Rentsch, vice president of academic affairs at QCC, said in a Thursday press release announcing the hiring. “We are thrilled she’ll be working with QCC students and alumni to bring their ideas forward.”
Knight obtained an MBA from Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island and a bachelor’s degree in global citizenship with a specialization in management from the now closed Becker College in Worcester.
She served as the director of Center For Women & Enterprise Central MA, until she was laid off in February due to uncertainty from the President Donald Trump Administration’s attempt to freeze federal aid to nonprofits with government contracts.
“Entrepreneurship is a new type of job security,” said Knight. “I’m happy to be in a space where we can help people move forward and ensure entrepreneurs have access to the right resources.”
Knight's leadership background includes being founder of the For One Child Foundation, a nonprofit providing help for more than 1,500 students across Massachusetts and rural areas in her home country of Jamaica, through educational and digital resources as well as infrastructure development.
She is founder and CEO of Worcester consulting firm Own Your Legacy Ventures.
Knight won WBJ’s 40 Under Forty Award in 2024, was named to Worcester Magazine’s Woman to Watch list in 2025, and was recognized as a Massachusetts Commonwealth Heroine in 2025.
Jill McSorley is an editorial intern for the Worcester Business Journal. She is a student at Assumption University studying communications and media, writing, and marketing.
