Sonia Quiñónez is the Northern Virginia Program Director at the Meyer Foundation. Previously, she was the executive director at SCAN of Northern Virginia from 2010 to 2018, and has held community leadership roles on the Nonprofit NOVA Steering Committee and the Alexandria Council of Human Services Organizations, among others. For over three decades Sonia has designed, implemented and evaluated initiatives that seek solutions to community challenges by working in partnership with families in poverty, immigrant families, families of children with disabilities, and families struggling with trauma and abuse. She has a master’s in social work from Virginia Commonwealth University.