Quanita Toffie

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Quanita Toffie is the Senior Director of Groundswell Action Fund, a 501(c)(4) public foundation. Since GAF's inception in 2017, Quanita has moved over $13M in c4 general support funding to resource intersectional electoral organizing led by women of color, low-income women and Transgender and Gender Expansive (TGE) people of color. She co-created GAF’s first-ever strategic plan, 2020 – 2025 Blueprint. Prior to this role, she led Groundswell Fund’s 501(c)(3) Integrated Voter Engagement (IVE) program, a capacity building program that equips Reproductive Justice (RJ) groups with cutting edge voter engagement skills and technology to implement year-round organizing. 

Quanita began organizing for social justice alongside her parents in her native South Africa. She joined her parents as they voted, for the first time in their lives, for Nelson Mandela in 1994. Quanita and her family immigrated to Florida in 1997. She found her political home at the Miami Workers Center and was involved in MWC’s first non-partisan civic engagement campaign in 2008. In 2009, she was a founding staff member of New Florida Majority and led the creation of statewide, data-driven electoral campaigns to advance social change until 2014. She holds a B.A. in Political Theory, Economic Development, and African Studies from Hampshire Colleg