QT is an organization with big ideas and a passion for accountability.
Meet The Leadership Team!
Marjorie Anderson
(she/her)
Head of Community and 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.
Héc Maldonado-Reis
(they/them/elle)
Managing Director
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Héc Maldonado-Reis (they.them.elle) is a Social Impact Strategist, QommonThread’s co-founder and Managing Director. They head QTs enterprise strategy and operations, collaborating closely with department Heads to supporting 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 formerly served on the executive boards of Children & Families First, Wilmington Alliance, Latin American Community Center and Harvard Gender & Sexuality Caucus and are a current advisory board member of Make an Impact. Héc holds academic appointments at Boston University’s Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and at Rutgers University’s School of Graduate Studies. They are a former Strategic Initiatives Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice and Teaching Fellow at their Center for Social Impact Strategy. Héc was the DE Democratic Party's LGBTQ+ Caucus’s first chair, and is an alum of the Bread & Roses Gender Justice Fund’s Giving Project.
They are currently completing the Doctor of Public Health program at the Rutgers School of Public and hold an MS in Nonprofit Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2), AM in Population Health Sciences (Quantitative Methods) from Harvard University, MPH in Environmental and Occupational Health and BS in Biomedical Engineering both from Rutgers University–New Brunswick.