Board of Directors - Dom Summa, Assistant Executive Director
California Teachers Association (CTA)
Dom Summa has been on the professional staff of the California Teachers Association for twenty-seven years. He currently manages the Negotiations and Organizational Development Department consisting of specialists located throughout the state, who provide support to field staff and chapter leaders in the areas of negotiations, training, Organizational Development, school finance and research.
Prior to his appointment as Assistant Executive Director, Dom served local chapters in the Coachella Valley. He also worked for CTA in the San Francisco Bay Area. Dom started his staff career with eight years of service in New York and served two years as State Executive Director of the Hawaii State Teachers Association. He was a business education teacher in the Mt. Pleasant School District in Thornwood, New York. He earned his Bachelor of Business Administration with a Finance Major from Pace University in New York and his M. S. in Education with a Counseling Major from the University of Bridgeport. He also completed the prestigious Harvard Trade Union
Program.
Dom currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Center for Collaborative Solutions and received the “Agent of Change in Education” award from the Full Circle Fund for his work on Alternative Models of Compensation. Dom has served city government as a library commissioner for six years in Pleasanton, and was President of the California Association of Library Trustees and Commissioners.
Dom is a resident of Indio, California.
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California Teachers Association (CTA)Dom Summa has been on the professional staff of the California Teachers Association for twenty-seven years. He currently manages the Negotiations and Organizational Development Department consisting of specialists located throughout the state, who provide support to field staff and chapter leaders in the areas of negotiations, training, Organizational Development, school finance and research.
Prior to his appointment as Assistant Executive Director, Dom served local chapters in the Coachella Valley. He also worked for CTA in the San Francisco Bay Area. Dom started his staff career with eight years of service in New York and served two years as State Executive Director of the Hawaii State Teachers Association. He was a business education teacher in the Mt. Pleasant School District in Thornwood, New York. He earned his Bachelor of Business Administration with a Finance Major from Pace University in New York and his M. S. in Education with a Counseling Major from the University of Bridgeport. He also completed the prestigious Harvard Trade Union
Program.
Dom currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Center for Collaborative Solutions and received the “Agent of Change in Education” award from the Full Circle Fund for his work on Alternative Models of Compensation. Dom has served city government as a library commissioner for six years in Pleasanton, and was President of the California Association of Library Trustees and Commissioners.
Dom is a resident of Indio, California.
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