Geri Aglipay

As Small Business Majority's Senior Fellow, Geri Sanchez Aglipay leads policy and fundraising efforts in Illinois. Previously, she was the former presidential appointee as the Small Business Administration (SBA) Great Lakes Regional Administrator in the Biden Administration. In that role, Ms. Aglipay oversaw the agency’s field office programs, education programming and communications and public affairs strategy alongside a team of directors’ outreach operations in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin and 36 sovereign tribal nations. She signed the first agreement for an SBA field office to coordinate small business training with soon-to-be released individuals at state prisons and helped to expand SBA's affordable lending in the Great Lakes region by roughly 370% to diverse communities in urban and rural areas. Before her appointment to the SBA, Ms. Aglipay was Small Business Majority's Director of the Midwest Region and National Director of Women’s Entrepreneurship

She regularly lectures at Northwestern Kellogg School of Business, and she serves on the advisory council of HHS Center of Excellence UIC Center for Healthy Work. Ms. Aglipay is also a member of Oakton College Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Community Advisory Committee. Additionally, she served as an appointed member of the Chicago Federal Reserve’s Small Business Advisory Council to weigh on economic and monetary policies and she also was commissioner of the Cook County Commission for Social Innovation. In her spare time, she hunts for good local burgers from small businesses and is a coach for girls high school flag football.