Dev Aujla's Bio

My YES! Jams
2007 LPSC Jam
2008 LPSC Jam

Org: DreamNow
Location: Toronto
Website

Bio:

Dev is the Founder of DreamNow, a charitable organization that produces ideas that do good for the world. As a producer, DreamNow brings together people, raises money and plans for the growth of ideas.  

The ideas which Dev has played a role in producing have reached over fifty thousand people and have collectively raised over 3 million dollars. 

Dev’s work and writing has been featured through numerous media outlets including The Globe and Mail, The Huffington Post, Paper Magazine and CBC Newsworld. He currently sits as an advisor to several start-ups and is a director of the Spirit Bear Youth Coalition. 

Dev holds an English Literature degree from the University of Western Ontario and currently lives and works in both Toronto and New York. He is currently at work on his first book called Making Good which will be published by both Penguin and Rodale in 2012. 

"I never saw myself as privileged. I knew I had privilege, that I had opportunities others did not but I would never outwardly label myself as privileged. I worked hard and I achieved goals. I am a type A person and I make lists and get results. The Jam enabled me to take a break from all that and realize that there is another side of me that has just as much strength and can be ‘leveraged’ for just as much good. I learnt, in a remarkably concrete way, the difference between ‘the heart’ and ‘the mind’ and how they unite in my relationships with my family, my goals, my work and in the subsequent privilege that these provide for me. The uniqueness of the Jam is that I did not learn this from experts, panels or keynotes but rather I learnt this through myself- myself as part of a community. The community that YES created is its strength and the community was what enabled me to take risks, listen, understand and eventually learn for myself. It is a rare experience in our frenetic world and one that will continue to shape me. I highly recommend you try."

Methods Used
media, technology, social entrepreneurship

Regions I Work In
North America