David Domenici

Overview

David Domenici is the Director of the Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. David has been working with at risk and court involved youth for 15 years. In 1997 he quit his job as a corporate lawyer and along with James Forman Jr. started the See Forever Foundation and the Maya Angelou Public Charter School. Over the next 10 years David served as the organization s Executive Director as well as the Principal of its initial campus. In 2007 Maya Angelou was asked to take over the school at Oak Hill Washington DC s long term juvenile correctional facility. David designed the school program hired all the staff and became the founding Principal of the school called the Maya Angelou Academy. David left the Maya Angelou Academy in the fall of 2011 to start the Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings. David is an Ashoka and Echoing Green Fellow and is a graduate of Stanford Law School and the University of Virginia.