Drew Tagliabue

About Drew Tagliabue

Drew Tagliabue has built his career at the intersection of nonprofit leadership and LGBTQ+ advocacy, with a particular focus on the safety and well-being of young people. For 16 years to 2022, he served as Executive Director of PFLAG NYC, founded in 1972 as the first family-based organization dedicated to making life better for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth. He created innovative programs to help families stay close when a loved one comes out and expanded access to the Safe Schools Program into every public school in New York. Drew has also been a community leader on other issues affecting the queer community.

In 1995, he co-founded one of the organizations that became Immigration Equality and has been involved in immigration issues for more than 30 years. He continues his LGBTQ+ advocacy today through work with foundations and his consulting venture, Qriosity Studio.

Prior to entering the nonprofit sector, Drew worked as a management consultant and executive recruiter. He began his career at Okamoto Associates, Inc., a boutique political and risk consulting firm in Tokyo, advising multinational corporations on corporate strategy and political risk across the Asia-Pacific region. He then joined Russell Reynolds Associates, one of the world’s leading executive search firms, building a practice focused on professional services and the technology sector and advising companies ranging from Fortune 500 firms to venture-backed startups on senior executive leadership.

Drew is a graduate of Amherst College. He has summered on Squirrel Island on the Maine midcoast with his family since the early 1970s. He and his husband Mark Jones split their time between New York City, Maine, and Melbourne, Australia.