Dominic Cappello

Who is Dominic Cappello?

Dominic Cappello is a Santa Fe-based writer, designer, and educator. He is the creator of the Ten Talks book series published by Hyperion in 2000 and 2001. Ten Talks received national attention when Oprah Winfrey created a show around the book on sex and character in October 2000, featuring parents who had used the books' approaches to family communication.

Cappello is also the author of the parent-focused HIV prevention program "Can We Talk?" developed by the National Education Association -Health Information Network through a cooperative agreement with the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Adolescent and School Health in 1999.

Cappello, working for the New Mexico Department of Health, developed the youth injury prevention project called the Resiliency Corps. The Resiliency Corps focuses on the implementation of evidence-based youth injury, violence and substance misuse prevention strategies. The five year pilot project promotes community mobilizing around policies shown to reduce injuries and offers the e-course "Youth Safety, Health and Resiliency" to residents at the University of New Mexico-Valencia. He is the co-founder of Safety and Success, a socially-engaged design and strategy firm in Santa Fe.