QT is an organization with big ideas and a passion for accountability.
Marjorie Anderson
(she/her)
Head of Community Vitality
Nagela Dales
(she/her)
Head of Nonprofit Growth
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Marjorie Anderson (she/her) is a Community Strategist and QommonThread’s Head of Community Vitality where she leads community engagement and ecosystem development. Marjorie, brings deep experience mobilizing people for nonprofits and social impact organizations. Specializing in turning mission-driven goals into collective action, Marjorie’s expertise lies in developing comprehensive engagement frameworks leveraging the psychology of belonging that align organizational goals with the lived experiences of community members. From scaling global community advocacy initiatives to revitalizing member associations, she brings a data-informed approach to human connection that builds power and drives lasting change.
Marjorie is a founding member of Impact Table, a multigenerational, intersectional community designed for established and emerging women leaders in Nonprofit, CSR, or ESG roles or B-corp or tech for good organizations and a Prosci Certified Change Management Professional. She has been recognized as a 2019 TED Emerging Innovator, was awarded the 2022 Women Who Advance Associations recognition by ‘Women Who Advance’ showcasing female leaders, trailblazers and change-makers who actively advance the association community, and is a graduate of the McKinsey & Company Black Executive Leadership Program. Marjorie is also the Founder and Principal Strategist for Community by Association, helping association, nonprofit, and social impact leaders strategically integrate community into their business model and she hosts a podcast called Connecting Across the Diaspora, elevating the community experiences and traditions of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people.
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Nagela Dales (she/her) is a Design Strategist and Qommon Thread's Head of Nonprofit Growth, leading nonprofit engagement, product co-creation, and partnership development for queer-serving organizations. She brings over a decade of experience designing with communities, organizations, and founders across sectors and geographies — specializing in turning lived expertise into tools, programs, and strategies that help nonprofits build capacity and fund their missions on their own terms.
Her work spans co-ideating an Indigenous-centered DNA platform grounded in data sovereignty, leading service design for healthcare nonprofits and facilitating design workshops for everyone from global brands like Nike to community organizers and activists building sustainable movements. She is the founder of OPENHOUSE, a design studio for prototyping possibilities to build culturally affirming learning environments that center the brilliance and agency of individuals.
A first-generation entrepreneur, she brings a liberatory design practice to the spaces where community need, organizational capacity, and philanthropic support have yet to meet.
Héc Maldonado-Reis
(they/them/elle)
Managing Director
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Héc Maldonado-Reis (they.them.elle) is a Social Impact Strategist and QommonThread’s co-founder and Managing Director. They head QTs enterprise strategy and operations, collaborating closely with department Heads to support and sustain the execution of their visions. Héc is a public health scholar-practioner and nonprofit leader with deep experience leveraging evidence to build ecosystems that bridge strategy and operations. They are skilled at identifying and bridging equity gaps, and have worked closely with a broad range of stakeholders from local community members and nonprofit executives, to funders and legislators in designing, implementing and evaluating social innovations.
They serve on the executive boards of the Children & Families First and the Harvard Gender & Sexuality Caucus, and on the advisory board of Make an Impact. Héc holds appointments as Visiting Researcher and Dean’s Fellow at Boston University’s Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and at Rutgers University’s School of Graduate Studies, respectively. Formerly Héc was a Strategic Initiatives Fellow at University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice as well as a Teaching Fellow at their Center for Social Impact Strategy. Héc was the Delaware Democratic Party's LGBTQ+ Caucus first chair, and is also an alumni of the Bread & Roses Gender Justice Fund’s Giving Project.
They are currently enrolled in the Doctor of Public Health program at the Rutgers School of Public, and hold an MS in Nonprofit Leadership from University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2), AM in Population Health Sciences from Harvard University, MPH in Environmental and Occupational Health and BS in Biomedical Engineering both from Rutgers University–New Brunswick.
