Marco Antonio Quiroga is the Executive Director of the Contigo Fund and a dedicated leader with over 15 years of experience in community organizing, coalition building, and philanthropy advancing a progressive agenda for marginalized communities, including policy victories in both the legislative and administrative arenas.
Marco works towards changing systems to ensure those living at the intersections of marginalized identities and pushed to the margins of society are given full access to resources, self-determination, and treated with the dignity & respect they deserve.
As the Founder and Executive Director for the Contigo Fund, which launched in response to the horrific massacre that occurred on Latin Night at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida on June 2016 targeting Queer people of color. Contigo made history by becoming the first and only Queer Latinx fund in the United States and largest grantmaking organization in the US South explicitly supporting Queer communities of color. As of 2024, Contigo has already awarded over $4.8 Million to Queer grassroots organizations advancing intersectional racial, gender and economic justice movements across Central Florida.
Previously, Marco served as the Director of Public Policy at the True Colors Fund where he led state and local advocacy efforts to holistically prevent and address LGBTQ+ youth homelessness and within the federal government to help ensure no young person is homeless as a result of their sexual orientation or gender identity. He also served as the National Field Officer at Immigration Equality, a national organization that works to end discrimination in U.S. immigration law, to reduce the negative impact of that law on the lives of LGBTQ+ and HIV-positive people, and to help obtain asylum for those persecuted and at risk in their country of origin based on their sexual orientation, transgender identity, or HIV-status.
