Juan Pablo Bonilla Santiago is Vice President of Economic Inclusion and Wealth Building at the United Way of Massachusetts Bay leading its economic mobility and wealth building work, including Boston Builds Credit and its network of Financial Opportunity Centers. Prior to joining the United Way, Juan spent 18 years at Lawrence CommunityWorks, Inc., a UW community partner, as their Chief Operating Officer/Deputy Director. Juan has an extensive background in nonprofit leadership in the areas of affordable housing, community building, financial empowerment, workforce development and housing counseling programming. He holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and Spanish from Bowdoin College (Class of 1995) and received his master’s in public policy at Tufts University in August 2022. He has recently been accepted to serve on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Community Advisory Board and Prosperity Now’s Financial Security Network Steering Committee. He also served as a member of the Federal Reserve Bank’s Community Advisory Council (2017-2020) and is a past board member of the YMCA of Merrimack Valley, The Midas Collaborative, the Merrimack Valley Federal Credit Union, the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations (MACDC) and Ahora, Inc., a non-profit start-up. Juan is a past recipient of the Bowdoin College Common Good Award and the Lawrence Bar Association’s Liberty Bell Award for Community Service. Born in Puerto Rico, he came to Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1982 at age 9 and lived in the city for over 30 years. He now lives in Haverhill, Massachusetts with his family.