Dreams For Schools

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CEO/Executive Director

Nithin Jilla

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Nithin Jilla is a passionate educator, social entrepreneur and philanthropist who champions building models and systems of social change that are sustainable and empower the next generation. Nithin currently serves as the Executive Director of Dreams for Schools (DFS), an EdTech organization whose mission is to make STEAM approachable and empower students to become the critical thinkers, creative leaders and technologists of tomorrow. Nithin has also advised and helped run a few family foundations and their grant-making strategies over the years. He’s always thinking about how we can reinvent and take new approaches in philanthropy to be more equitable. Nithin is also the Co-Founder of Excelsior Creative – a creative web development agency. In the community, Nithin actively serves on several non-profit and advisory Boards of organizations which include Harbor Day School, Asian American Futures, Electric Potential, Donna Ford Attallah College of Educational Studies at Chapman University, and UC Irvine Alumni Association. He was also an EdTech advisor to CEO Leadership Alliance Orange County. During the pandemic, Nithin co-authored a children’s book, R is for Rice, a rhyming alphabet book on Asian-American food with the goal to inspire current and future generations of Asian-Americans to feel pride in their unique American identity. Nithin holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine.

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