Juan Salgado is chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago, overseeing Chicago’s community college system that serves more than 80,000 students across seven colleges. He has focused his more than 20-year career on improving education and economic opportunities for residents in low-income communities. From 2001 to 2017, Salgado was CEO of Instituto del Progreso Latino, where he worked to empower residents of Chicago’s Southwest Side through education, citizenship, and skill-building programs that lead to sustainable employment and economic stability. A community college graduate himself, he also has bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Salgado is a 2015 MacArthur Fellow and, among other civic commitments, a board member of the Obama Foundation.
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