OUR FOUNDER

We Major was founded by Dominique Johnson in 2019 to design curriculum, as well as provide professional development training for after-school programs. We Major has worked with after-school programs such as KIPP NYC, Children’s Aid, Flatbush Development Corp, and WHEDco.

Johnson is a New York licensed Teacher for Students With Disabilities for grades 7-12. She has developed school curriculum for Encyclopædia Britannica, EL Education, Chicago Public Schools’ Skyline Curriculum, and the New York City Department of Education’s Hidden Voices curriculum.

In 2010, Dominique graduated from Northwestern University, and went on to earn her master’s degree in Secondary Inclusive Education at Teachers College – Columbia University in 2013. She served as a Special Education ELA teacher with the New York City Department of Education.

After 4 years, she joined the New York City Department of Youth & Community Development (DYCD) to train hundreds of after-school program directors and their staff to implement academic programming as the Engagement and Instruction Content Specialist. Her most impactful accomplishment with the agency was creating the Evaluation Monitoring System Activity Observation Rubric for DYCD, establishing the performance standards for their 900+ after-school programs.