Dominicca Troi Washington, M.Ed is a Chicago native born and raised on the city’s South Side. She is the founder and executive director of The SHE Society Incorporated: SHE Chicago, a young women’s after-school program that provides social-emotional learning, community service opportunities, and college and career exploration for inner-city teen girls and girl-identifying students.

 

Dominicca worked for 10 years as a teacher in both Chicago Public Schools and EPIC Academy a local charter school. During her tenure as a teacher, she dedicated herself to advocacy for equitable education and teacher leadership through work with Educators 4 Excellence, CTU Policy Fellows, and TeachPlus Teaching Policy Fellows where she wrote policy recommendations that informed current statewide practice regarding recruitment and retention of teachers of color.

 

Dominicca's equity advocacy extended into work with CPS's inaugural equity office where she was a part of the Instructional Equity Work Group informing and supporting the development of CPS's Equity Framework. Furthering her passion for DEIA, Dominicca was an inaugural member of AMPT Anti-Racist Restorative Practice cohort for nonprofit leaders. Dominicca was also selected as one of Chicago Scholar’s 35 Under 35, an honor that celebrates the impact of young professionals on Chicago’s youth, for her work with SHE Chicago.

 

Dominicca is also an Inaugural Obama Leaders USA 2023 Cohort member. Other affiliations include;  TeachPlus Chicago: Education Policy Fellow, Chicago Teachers Union: Education Policy Fellow, Educators for Excellence: Education Policy Fellow, CPS Teacher Ambassador, AMPT Advisory Council, IExD Continuous Improvement Fellow, Congressional Black Caucus-Black Women and Girls Advisory Council, Girls Inc- SHE Shines Honoree, University of Chicago Community Programs Accelerator-Special Projects, Obama Foundation: Girls Opportunity Alliance-Community Partner, 

 

Dominicca has long been an advocate for young women and education, focusing on low-socioeconomic and minority communities. Her personal and professional experience, particularly in large public school systems, serves as a catalyst to her passionate approach to meeting the needs of inner-city youth and advocating for change that responds to the needs of marginalized groups.

 

At SHE Chicago, Dominicca supports a student-driven initiative created by SHE Sisters called Urban Girls Against Violence, which serves as the activism arm of SHE Chicago where they seek to amplify the voices of marginalized teen girls in response to community and domestic violence. Dominicca utilizes her love for education and writing to spread awareness of the education system through several published articles featured on Education Post, and in The Chicago Sun-Times some of which have been featured in. Dominicca is also a self-published children's book author and education leadership coach.