Satori Bailey

Satori Bailey (she/her) serves as the senior manager of programs and impact at the Hunter Family Foundation. She previously served as the Illinois executive director at America Needs You (ANY), where she led the growth and expansion of the Illinois site’s career development fellowship program for first-generation college students. Prior to ANY, Satori served as the director of asset building programs at the Center for Economic Progress, where she led the state’s largest Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program serving over 18,000 individuals and families across Illinois. She developed an innovative tax savings program and volunteer-led financial coaching program that were nationally recognized. She was also a proud steering committee member of the national Taxpayer Opportunity Network organized by Prosperity Now. Satori received her bachelor’s degree in resource economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and her Master’s in social work from the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice.