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, and WHEDco.

Johnson has helped develop the middle school curriculum for EL Education, Chicago Public Schools’ Skyline Curriculum, and 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 went on to serve 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 is creating the Evaluation Monitoring System Activity Observation Rubric for DYCD, to establish the performance standards for their 900+ after-school programs.

We Major is launching its Black History Class after-school program in Fall 2023.