About Us

Dream On Education is a Chicago-based nonprofit that provides academic, professional, and cultural enrichment services to high-achieving low-income middle school students in Chicago.

We currently provide compelling youth programming in a unique, immersive, 100% interactive format.

Our students grow in the following areas: development of a growth mindset, emotion identification, development of interests/sense of purpose, mental health awareness, and the establishment of strong study habits.

team

Kelli Haywood, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, is Founder and Executive Director of Dream On Education, a Chicago-based nonprofit that provides academic enrichment for high-achieving, low-income middle school students. Additionally, Kelli is the Community Impact Manager for Cboe Global Markets where she is growing Cboe’s impact through community partnerships, employee engagement, and D&I on a national and global level.

Kelli is currently an MBA Candidate at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. She completed her Master’s of Sports Administration program at Northwestern University, where her concentration field was Marketing and Public Relations. In 2008 she earned her Bachelor’s degree from Spelman College where she was a varsity basketball player and Dean’s List Honor’s student.

Kelli is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. Prior to launching Dream On Education, Kelli worked in Account Marketing for Adidas and for Walgreens Corporate as a Strategic Planning Analyst, where she supported, both, the Visual Merchandising and the Promotional Planning divisions. Kelli also worked as Director of Corporate Development at the American Heart Association and Community Leadership Corp Consultant for The Obama Foundation.

Outside of work and school, Kelli enjoys running, cooking, and spending time with friends and family.

Jasmine has worked with Dream On for over three years. In addition to serving as Program Manager, she worked with Chicago Public School students in several capacities, from leading financial literacy lectures to high school students to educating early childhood students with STEM concepts. Outside of her work with CPS, she has helped with consulting projects for minority-owned small businesses, as well as various Fortune 500 companies.

Jasmine earned her Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy from the University of Chicago, and minored in Education and Society & Inequality, Social Problems, and Change. She is currently a Juris Doctor candidate at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.