If you are planning to mail a check by the end of the year, please note that the U.S. Postal Service has updated its rules, and machine postmarks will now be applied when mail is processed at regional processing centers (not at the local drop off point). To ensure your check is postmarked in time to be eligible for a 2025 charitable deduction, we recommend requesting a manual postmark in person at a post office or using certified/registered mail. Click here for more details on giving dates and deadlines.
Adrian Esquivel is the deputy director for the Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance.
In this role, working with a wide variety of stakeholders, Adrian oversees industry-sector partnerships, organizes for workers’ rights, and promotes educational and public policy alignment to increase equity in the region.
Before joining the Funder Alliance, Adrian worked on community and economic development issues at Enlace Chicago. He also advised World Business Chicago, the City of Chicago’s economic development agency, on its workforce development strategy in an effort to align the work of economic and workforce development. Adrian has served as a board member of the Woodstock Institute, a member of the City of Chicago’s Community Development Advisory Council, the State of Illinois’ Equity Task Force, and presents nationally at conferences on issues of workforce development equity.
Adrian holds a bachelor’s degree in social science from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree in urban planning and policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and was a Civic Leadership Academy Fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He is currently a Job Quality Fellow with the Aspen Institute’s Economic Opportunities Program.
