Next Generation Leadership Finalist
Benjamin Juarez
Fiscal researcher, Public Policy Forum
Through his work at the Public Policy Forum, fiscal researcher Benjamin Juarez learned to think critically about issues occurring with nonprofits in the community.
To address those needs, Juarez founded Cream City Coders, a limited liability company focused on teaching students to code while also providing programming and coding services to the nonprofit community.
In addition to helping the nonprofit community, Cream City Coders is focused on creating a talent pipeline and fostering the maker movement in the community.
Cream City Coders has produced coding products for PeppNation, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Dominican Center, Hispanic Professionals of Greater Milwaukee and Carmen High School.
Juarez also regularly provides advice and direction to the nonprofit community, and has served on the boards of Artists Working in Education, Milwaukee Forum, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Boys & Girls Clubs government relations committee, Social X advisory committee and the Layton Boulevard West Association.
