MarquisCabrera

Marquis Cabrera is the Founder and Chairman of Foster Skills, Inc. – an award-winning social enterprise dedicated to empowering foster children to become successful, productive citizens. He is the youngest to win Massachusetts Innovator of the Year (Boston Globe) and Massachusetts Young Nonprofit Professional of the Year (MNN). Earlier in his career, Marquis conceptualized and engineered a computer program that produced IDs used to increase school district security in Middletown. He was the first intern, law clerk for Massachusetts Super Lawyer Krista Larsen and served as a judicial intern at both The Massachusetts Appeals and Supreme Judicial Courts. He co-op'd at City Year - a nonprofit founded by Harvard Law graduates to end the high school dropout rate - and interned in the White House Chief of Staff’s Office under President Barack Obama. Later, Marquis joined Wayfair – the largest online retailer for home in the United States – and consulted in areas from retail operations to corporate communications. He also worked for Wefunder – a Y-Combinator, Paul Graham-backed startup and helped to champion the Startup Jobs Act. He has coached WHITESPACE, Black Startup, reweave, CoffeeBar, and Krystal Board. Marquis was selected as The Case Foundation’s Finding Fearless Winner and Microsoft’s Changemaker. He was a plenary speaker at Harvard Law School's Child Advocacy Program, Reaching Out MBA, Boston Children's Hospital's Management Rounds, TEDxTeachersCollege, and the Opportunity Nation Conference. Marquis has been featured in publications like Reuters, NPR, and The Boston Globe. He's a blogger for the Huffington Post and Harvard Business Review. Hilary Clinton and Congressman Maurice Hinchey nominated Marquis to attend the Air Force Academy, but he decided to study juvenile law and policy at Northeastern University under the tutelage of Massachusetts Supreme Court Chief Justice Roderick Ireland and Governor Michael Dukakis.

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