Geri Aglipay

Geraldine “Geri” Sanchez Aglipay directs Small Business Majority's outreach, education and policy efforts in the Midwest region and Greater Chicago to enhance financial capacity and health security for small business owners, their employees and their families. She also manages Small Business Majority’s national outreach to women entrepreneurs and women's business organizations. As a former solo-entrepreneur, Geri is passionate about helping entrepreneurs strengthen their asset building and building an inclusive economy that works for all through entrepreneurship, especially for women, communities of color and the underserved. She's also a member of the COMPASS Community Engagement Advisory Board at Oakton Community College, where she provides guidance on how to increase community engagement with small businesses to better support under-represented AAPI students from low-moderate income households.

Prior to joining Small Business Majority, Geri worked with the Asian Health Coalition and GetCoveredIllinois.gov to help roll out the Affordable Care Act in underserved areas and managed the national Health Resources and Services Administration’s Public Health Training Center Network workfrorce centersworkforce centers under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She has extensive professional and volunteer experience on issues impacting people of color, especially in the arena of public health, civil rights and civic affairs, having served on boards such as the American Public Health Association's Asian Pacific Islander Caucus. Geri is a member of the steering committee for the Illinois Asset Building Coalition. She was selected to the Cultivate: Women of Color Leadership Program, which aims to strengthen women leaders of color in Chicago working to advance economic, social and racial justice issues. She serves as commissioner of the Cook County Commission for Social Innovation, as well as on state Senator Villivalam's Multicultural Advisory Committee and the Chicago Women in Philanthropy Racial Equity and Social Justice Committee.