Ms. Hidalgo has been appointed to serve as the Associate Administrator for the Office of Government Contracting and Business Development (GCBD), effective Tuesday, February 16, 2021. In this role, Ms. Hidalgo will be responsible for providing expert advice, guidance, and assistance to the SBA Administrator, key agency and White House officials in oversight of small business contracting across the federal agencies through the Office of Government Contracting, including 8(a), Women-Owned, HUBZone and Service-Disabled Veteran contracting, as well as the Office of Business Development and Office of Policy, Planning and Liaison. In her prior role, she was the SBA Government Contracting Policy Lead for the Biden-Harris Transition Team, developing policy concepts that President Biden could execute in the first 100 days, with an emphasis on underserved communities. In 2014, Ms. Hidalgo and her brother Patrick Hidalgo Co-Founded Future Partners, LLC, which advised Fortune 500 corporate executives on procurement and minority business strategy, and created a model for how to facilitate significant opportunity for both. Prior to that they both served in the White House, during which time she managed a government-wide initiative with the 24 Cabinet agencies to position the federal government to meet the Congressional 23% small business goal out of a $400 billion contracting budget for the first time in a decade. In addition to her experience, Ms. Hidalgo has a Master’s in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In her free time she enjoys being an assistant coach to her son's CYO basketball team. She is dedicating her work to the memory of her brother Patrick who passed away suddenly at the age of 41 in March of 2020.