Home HeadQuarters’ Kerry Quaglia on leadership: ‘Be passionate about what you’re doing’

Kerry Quaglia has hired and then sent into the world an all-star team of community leaders over his 28 years as CEO of Home HeadQuarters, a Syracuse nonprofit agency promoting homeownership and stable neighborhoods.

A partial list of alumni includes Syracuse Deputy Mayor Sharon Owens; two former city Neighborhood and Business Development commissioners, Paul Driscoll and Stephanie Pasquale; Doug Reicher, former president of Christopher Community and now a consultant; Camille Tisdel, a top technology administrator at Syracuse University; Alys Mann, former director of housing for the city and now a consultant; Nancy Kern Eaton, president of United Way; Sheena Solomon, executive director of the Rosamond Gifford Foundation; Onondaga County Clerk Emily Essi; and Katy Easterly Martey, executive director at New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority.

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