Juan Salgado

Juan Salgado is a Chicago-based community leader.[1] Since 2017, he has been chancellor of the City Colleges of Chicago.[2] He is a 2015 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.[3]

Salgado became President and CEO of the Instituto del Progreso Latino, an organization that helps low-income Latino immigrant communities in Chicago to achieve upward mobility through education and job placement, in 2001.[4] Salgado ran the Manufacturing Works job training program, after he was commissioned to start the project for Chicago in 2002. After a trial period, the Manufacturing Works began operating in 2005.[1] In 2010, he opened a charter school called the Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy.[3]

Salgado received his A.A. in 1989 from Moraine Valley Community College, a B.A. in 1991 from Illinois Wesleyan University[5] and a Masters of Urban Planning (M.U.P.). in 1993 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[4][6]

Salgado grew up in Calumet Park, Illinois to a father who was a steelworker and a mother who was a housewife.[5]

Honors

In 2010, Salgado was the recipient of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund Excellence in Community Service Award.[7] In 2011, he was recognized as the White House Champion for Change in Social Innovation.[8] In 2013, he was the speaker for Illinois Wesleyan's Commencement and received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree.[4] He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2015.[9][10]

Family

He is married and he and Leticia have three children.[3]

References
  1. "A Friend of Manufacturing: Juan Salgado Named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow". www.americanmanufacturing.org. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  2. "Who's Who: Powerful Latinos in Chicago Business - Juan Salgado". Crain's Chicago Business. 2019-08-28. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
  3. Four, Heather Martino The Seventy (2016-01-27). "Meet The MacArthur Genius Devoted To Latino Immigrant Families". HuffPost. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  4. "Juan Salgado - MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  5. Report, Daily Illini Staff (2015-09-30). "University alumnus Juan Salgado named 2015 MacArthur Fellow". The Daily Illini. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  6. Community. "2015 MacArthur Fellows – The Latinos | Hispanic Lifestyle". Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  7. "MacArthur Fellow Salgado '91 to Give Student Senate "Do Good" Lecture | Illinois Wesleyan". www.iwu.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  8. "Salgado '91 a MacArthur "Genius" | Illinois Wesleyan". www.iwu.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  9. "MacArthur 'Genius' Grants Awarded to Three Chicagoans". WTTW News. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  10. "Two Latinos - Lin-Manuel Miranda, Juan Salgado - among MacArthur 'genius' recipients". Fox News. 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
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