Nida Crisostomo

Director of Operations, Raising A Reader

As director of national operations, Nida is responsible for oversight of all operational aspects of Raising A Reader’s national office. Nida started working for Raising A Reader as an accountant in March 2007 and was quickly promoted to senior accountant then to her current position.

Nida earned a bachelor of science degree in accounting and a master’s in business administration from Saint Louis College-Philippines. After passing her CPA board exams, she worked as an accountant at SGV & Co, the Philippine’s largest multi-disciplinary professional services firm and an affiliate of Ernst & Young. She also served as an accounting college instructor for her alma mater while employed as an auditor of the Commission on Audit, the Philippine government’s auditing agency.

Several years later, she decided to join her family in United States. She worked as a bookkeeper at Keystone Restaurant Supply, staff accountant of Santa Clara County Fairgrounds Management Corporation and accounting manager of Delectables, Inc. prior to joining the community foundation.

She is the very proud mother of her daughter and believes that the happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything.