Brooke has five years of university-level, tribal and community college teaching experience and is focused on student success. She served as Division Dean at Portland Community College (Sylvania Campus) and was successful in the effective hiring, assessment and retention of faculty and staff with a proven track record of program development and implementation and student advisement. She is committed to progressive educational leadership, having earned a doctorate in Education with an emphasis in Community College Leadership from Oregon State University, a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction, and having completed post-doctoral studies at Harvard University in the study of presidential leadership.