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]

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]

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