Christopher Cormier Maggiano

Chris Cormier Maggiano, President and Founder of Cormier & Company, advises funders, issue advocates, and movement leaders to achieve their policy, political, and philanthropic goals. As a donor advisor and political strategist, he specializes at the intersection of progressive public policy, national campaigns, and funder engagement. Chris previously served as a Principal at The Raben Group, where he co-lead the firm’s team that helped build out the private sector initiative aligned with the White House’s My Brother’s Keeper campaign to improve life outcomes and expand opportunities for boys and young men of color. As the Director of Donor and Foundation Relations at the Denver-based Gill Action and Gill Foundation, Chris advised high-wealth donors in their political investments and secured over $17 million in state-level contributions from 2008 to 2012 to advance LGBTQ equality. Chris’ career in social advocacy began in New York where he was the Director of Organizing for the statewide LGBTQ group, the Empire State Pride Agenda, which he joined after serving as an Internal Architect at Goldman Sachs.