Marcos Marquez has more than two decades of experience in guiding communities and organizations to apply the principles of RBA. Since joining Clear Impact in 2015, he has trained and guided more than a hundred different communities across the US to advance social justice and strengthen collective impact by using data for strategic decision-making and implementation.

Since 2015, he has helped build a legacy of RBA throughout Texas, training early childhood leaders in 18 counties in partnership with the Department of Family and Protective Services. From 2015 to 2022, Mr. Marquez advanced the performance management efforts of the Annie E. Casey Foundation with the Research, Evaluation, Evidence and Data unit. From 2016-2018, he helped to instill RBA into the course curriculum at five Historically Black Colleges and Universities and one Hispanic-Serving Institution in the South and Southwest. Between 2016 and 2018 he partnered with the US Department of Education’s Promise Neighborhoods Initiative to maximize Clear Impact’s software services. In January 2018, he was credentialed as a Diversity Coach through the Coach Diversity Institute and has coached over a hundred public sector leaders, including senior executives through the Senior Leadership Development program for the National Institutes of Health. In 2021, Mr. Marquez led a health equity collaborative in Washington state to build a Community Health Improvement Plan grounded in RBA and the principles of racial equity. In 2022 he guided a pilot by the National Association on Mental Illness to promote equitable mental health outcomes for communities of color across the United States.

Currently, Mr. Marquez is guiding the collaborative addressing Racism as a Public Health Crisis in Cleveland to reduce disparities in five issue areas, including Criminal Justice, Education, Health-Public Health, Housing-Environment-Infrastructure, and Workforce Development, Economic Mobility, and Wealth Creation. He is leading the Cherokee Nation Tribal Health Department to develop and implement a data surveillance system to measurably improve health outcomes in 14 Cherokee counties in Oklahoma. He is leading the State of Arkansas in the development and implementation of a State Health Improvement Plan focused on five issue areas, including Access to Care, Addiction-Mental Health-Suicide, Infectious Disease Transmission and Vaccination, Maternal and Infant Health, and Obesity. His other current projects include:

• Building capacity for UCare in Minneapolis, MN to promote racial equity within its system and services
• Engaging SisterWeb, a doula network in San Francisco, with developing and implementing a data surveillance system to understand equitable impact for patients
• Guiding the development of disaggregated data sets for educational outcomes in relation to efforts by the Greater Cleveland Career Consortium
• Providing consultation and thought leadership to South Cumberland Community Fund, Teach for America, Partnership for Southern Equity, and PolicyLink

Prior projects include:

• Engaging the departmental staff from the City of San José, California to reduce racial disparities through equitable budgeting.
• State of Texas, Department of Family and Protective Services, Prevention and Early Intervention Division – trained and/or supported18 early childhood coalitions throughout the state to use the Clear Impact Scorecard and to learn and apply RBA
• Annie E. Casey Foundation, MD – provided technical assistance to the Performance Management team of the Research, Evaluation, Evidence, and Data unit; training and technical assistance on the RBA method with units and portfolios within the Foundation as well as external partners, including four Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• City of San José, CA – provided training and technical assistance for staff from 8 city departments to create equitable budgeting that reduces racial disparities amongst client populations of programs and services
• United Way of Waco and McLennan County, TX – technical assistance to organizational staff to use the Clear Impact Scorecard for performance management of programs and services
• United Way of Brazoria County, TX – provided training and technical assistance to the Board, organizational staff, funded partners, and community stakeholders that resulted in 1) an RBA framework that guides the annual grant funding process and 2) the development of a set of Clear Impact Scorecard that gather funded partners’ program data and aggregate the data to describe cumulative impact
• Behavioral Health System of Baltimore, MD – provided training to BHSB staff responsible for advancing RBA principles within the organization that strengthen client outcomes through data driven decision-making
• Essentia Health Network, MN – provided training to stakeholders from the Essentia Health Network serving Minnesota and parts of North Dakota and Wisconsin
• Healthy Whatcom – provided training and technical assistance on the application of RBA to health equity partners in Whatcom County, Washington, resulting in a community-developed Community Health Improvement Plan grounded in racial equity