Hi! 👋🏼 I’m Dom Brassey (she/they). I’m a Career and Technical Education (CTE) credentialed teacher at Coliseum College Prep Academy (CCPA), a public, non-charter middle/high school in Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) in California’s San Francisco Bay Area. I also teach part-time in the Multi-Media Arts (MMART) department at Berkeley City College (BCC).

I help students learn to…

• DECOMPOSE complex problems into smaller, solvable pieces;
• RECOGNIZE PATTERNS in emergent strategy environments;
• COMMUNICATE to build alignment around problem statements and priorities;
• DESIGN & DEPLOY rapid experiments and interpret data to guide development.

Authorizations

I am authorized for the following CTE industry sectors:

1. Arts, Media and Entertainment (AME), which includes career pathways for Design, Visual, and Media Arts; Performing Arts; Production and Managerial Arts; Game Design and Integration.
2. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), which includes career pathways for Information Support and Services; Networking; Software and Systems Development; Games and Simulation.
3. Marketing, Sales, and Services (MSS), which includes career pathways for Marketing; Professional Sales; Entrepreneurship/Self-Employment.
4. Fashion and Interior Design (FID), which includes career pathways for Fashion Design and Merchandising; Interior Design; Personal Services.

Before I was a teacher…

Before I became a teacher at age 40 ✨ I worked as a Brand Strategist and Technical Writer at Mapbox, a high-growth, venture-funded SaaS/DaaS startup competing in the mapping and geospatial technology space. My career experiences also include co-owning and operating a gender-nonconforming clothing startup; organizing diversity-focused educational events and tech career fairs in midsize cities across the United States; developing recruiting and retention programs for LGBTQIA+ tech workers; facilitating Women in Management groups at The Stanford Graduate School of Business; managing an ecommerce website for a multi-channel clothing retailer; designing and building websites and user interfaces; and producing communications for public benefit projects in the social sector.

Greatest hits

To see projects I’m most proud of, explore posts tagged as greatest hits.

Community Service

• Board Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) (2019 - Present)
• Guest Judge, FEMTech Bootcamp (2021)
• Organizer, All-Gender Book Club, Lesbians Who Tech (2018 - 2019)
• Coding Scholarship Advisor, Hack Reactor (2016 - 2018)
• Panel Producer & Host, Mapping the Crisis in Affordable Housing, Mapbox Locate (2018)
• Panel Presenter, 50/50 Day for Worldwide Gender Equity, Tiffany Shlain (2018)
• Panel Emcee, Entrepreneurship and Vulnerability, Lesbians Who Tech (2018)
• Participant, Open Oakland Brigade, Code for America (2018)

See more community service on my LinkedIn profile.