Mónica SanMiguel, Program Manager, Advisory Services
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Mónica SanMiguel is Program Manager, Advisory Services, at the Center for Financial Services Innovation. In this position, she is helping launch a new program that will provide training and consulting support to a small group of leading nonprofits around distributing financial products to underserved consumers. Ms. SanMiguel will provide strategic advice and technical assistance, helping nonprofits to assess opportunities and develop strategies and solutions that can serve as the basis for tools and resources to be leveraged by others.

Prior to CFSI, she was completing her graduate degree in public affairs. While in graduate school, she worked on a consulting project where she led an effort to create an economic development and implementation plan for the Municipality of Vieques.  She completed her summer internship at the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Consumer Protection, where she provided technical assistance in the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Prior to graduate school, she worked as an associate at the Rockefeller Foundation where she helped develop a program initiative focused on the economic security of low-income US workers. Her interest in financial access stems from her first-hand experience growing up in an underbanked household.

Ms. SanMiguel holds a Master of Public Affairs degree from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School with an emphasis on domestic policy. She also graduated with cum laude honors from the University of California-Los Angeles with a B.A. in international development studies. She is a Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Fellow and a Coro Immigrant Civic Leadership Fellow.