SHARLENE GUIRIBA, 2021 Mosaic Fellow

Sharlene is a joint MBA and MPP candidate at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and Harris School of Public Policy. She is a Chicago native and Filipina immigrant focused on creating pipelines and mitigating equity gaps for underresourced communities through investments in innovation. Sharlene began her career as a Deloitte Tax Consultant advising major corporations and ex-pats on international assignments. She then built out a software operations department and team at a late-stage fintech startup democratizing quality retirement advice. During her time at graduate school Sharlene has served as an Education Pioneers Fellow for Chicago Public School's post-COVID task force, ICM MBA Fellow, and currently a Venture Associate at Chingona Ventures. Sharlene has her CPA and graduated with a double major in Accountancy and Chinese from the University of Notre Dame.