Deirdre Quarnstrom is a Vice President at Microsoft, where she leads the team responsible for delivering Education products and services to learners and education institutions worldwide.

Since joining the Block by Block board in July 2015, Deirdre has participated in Block by Block events in Kosovo, Quito, Anaheim, Hanoi, Nairobi, Kalobeyei, and Addis Ababa. She has represented Block by Block as a panelist at MINECON 2016 in Anaheim, California and at the UN’s global Habitat III conference in Quito. She currently participates in the Strategic Planning Committee and chairs the foundation’s Communications Committee, working with fellow board members and partners to inspire others with the Block by Block story.

Deirdre holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from McGill University in Montreal and an MBA from Seattle University and completed the Executive Program at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. She is also a founding partner of Reaction, a social impact VC fund aimed at improving one billion lives by scaling innovations that change the world. Deirdre enjoys travel and spending time with her family in the parks near her home in Seattle.