Marquis Cabrera
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Marquis is the Founder and CEO of Foster Skills, a social enterprise supported by Microsoft and AOL Co-Founder Steve Case that develops innovations intended to help state governments improve the child welfare system. He is also the Co-Founder and Chairman of PhysioCare.io, a healthcare startup disrupting primary care. Marquis worked at City Year, Massachusetts Appeals and Supreme Courts, and The White House. He also consulted in retail operations and corporate communications at Wayfair (NYSE: W) and worked for Wefunder – a Y-Combinator, Paul Graham-backed startup and helped to champion the Startup Jobs Act. Marquis has coached Black Startup, reweave, Krystal Board.
Marquis was the youngest to win Massachusetts Innovator (Boston Globe) and Massachusetts Young Nonprofit Professional (Massachusetts Nonprofit Networks) of the Year. He was a plenary speaker at the Opportunity Nation Conference, Boston Children’s Hospital Management Forum, United Way Youth Venture Kick-Off, and his TEDx talk at Columbia University on ‘How To Build a Social Enterprise’ received 20,000+ views. He has been featured in Reuters, NPR, and Forbes. Marquis blogs for Huffington Post, Harvard Business Review, and the StanfordSocial Innovation Review. Hillary Clinton nominated Marquis to attend the Air Force Academy, but he decided to follow his heart (aka his high school sweetheart) and study under the tutelage of Governor Dukakis and Chief Justice Ireland at Northeastern, where he graduated with high honors. He has been accepted to Harvard and Yale for graduate school.