Juan Salgado

Juan Salgado is a Chicago-based community leader[1] and the 2015 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.[2] 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.[3] 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 and continues today.[1]

In 2010, he opened a charter school called the Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy.[2]

Salgado received his A.A. in 1989 from Moraine Valley Community College, a B.A. in 1991 from Illinois Wesleyan University[4] and an M.U.P. in 1993 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[3][5]

Salgado grew up in Calumet Park, Illinois to a father who was a steelworker and a mother who was a housewife.[4]

Honors

In 2010, Salgado was the recipient of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund Excellence in Community Service Award.[6] In 2011, he was recognized as the White House Champion for Change in Social Innovation.[7] In 2013, he was the speaker for Illinois Wesleyan's Commencement and received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree.[3] He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2015.[8][9]

Family

He is married and he and Leticia have three children.[2]

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