New Leadership Committed to Justice

Anthony Quezada was born and raised in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, where he witnessed the effects of rising rents, displacement, and growing unemployment on the primarily immigrant and working-class community. He is a community organizer and Neighborhood Services Director for the 35th Ward Alderman, dedicating himself to public service and social and economic justice. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Anthony led efforts to provide high-risk communities with resources and vaccines. In 2022, Anthony ran for Cook County Commissioner to bring change by fully funding Cook County hospitals, protecting the environment, ensuring safe neighborhoods, funding homeless services and affordable housing, providing property tax relief, fighting corruption, and passing ethics reform.

MFStrategies joined the campaign with just a few months until Election Day. Our team immediately got to work and turned the campaign's fundraising operation around, with the overwhelming majority of the campaign's $150,000 total raise coming in under our program. Anthony won a decisive 16-point victory against the incumbent commissioner.

Office
Cook County, Illinois, Board of Commissioners

MFStrategies Services
Fundraising, Finance Planning, Event Coordination, Call Time Management

Accomplishments

• Raised over $140,000 in less than 3 months with a first-time candidate

• Elected the first openly gay Latino to serve on the Cook County Board of Commissioners