Josh Brody

Executive Director

Josh Brody is an educator, social entrepreneur, and nonprofit leader whose work has centered on expanding access to transformative education and building mission-driven institutions.

As Founding Director of the Dragons Fund, Josh is helping expand access to global education experiences through scholarships, partnerships, and program innovation.

Josh served for nearly two decades as Head of School at Sequoyah School in Pasadena, California, where he founded the high school division, led major institutional growth, helped launch signature programs in social innovation and field studies, and helped establish indexed tuition in support of socioeconomic diversity, affordability, and broader access. He later served as Principal of Preshil, the oldest progressive school in Australia, supporting strategic and organizational renewal.

A consistent thread through Josh’s work has been educational equity. His doctoral research at UCLA focused on socioeconomic diversity in independent high schools, exploring how schools can widen access while strengthening educational communities.

Josh was an Echoing Green Fellow for social entrepreneurship and is founder of a long-standing education and community development initiative in Nepal integrating education, social innovation, and community development. He speaks Spanish and Nepali and has also worked in human rights education in Guatemala. His connection to global experiential education has been shaped in part through guiding for Where There Be Dragons and decades of intercultural work grounded in youth development and community-based learning.

Reflecting the creative and cross-cultural dimensions of that work, Josh has recorded original folk-pop music in Nepal under the name Gajab Bahadur Gurung Lama, produced hit music videos, and performed in concerts throughout Nepal and northeastern India.

He holds degrees from the University of Colorado Boulder, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and UCLA, and lives in Boulder, Colorado.