Independent Quaker School Names Strategic Communications Leader as Director of Marketing & Community Engagement
The Quaker School at Horsham
Located about 40 minutes north of Philadelphia, The Quaker School at Horsham (TQS) is a K–12 community built for learners with complex challenges, including ADHD, learning disabilities, autism, expressive and receptive language disorders, and anxiety disorders. Serving about 100 students today, TQS is a place where students who have felt misunderstood in more traditional settings can be known well, taught with care, and supported to build a future with real options. Quaker values are lived in daily practice through simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship, shaping a school culture that is warm, candid, and deeply relational.
This is a moment of visible growth. A new wing, set to open this fall, will expand learning and student-support spaces and allow TQS to grow enrollment into the mid 100s. With a visual rebrand and a new website underway, the school is also focused on strengthening community engagement and family connection, ensuring that communications and shared experiences keep pace with the school’s growth.
To support its next chapter of growth and evolution, TQS sought a director of marketing and community engagement, a newly created position reporting to the director of development. This was a unique opportunity for a strategic, hands-on leader who enjoys both building and doing. The director will assess what is working across marketing and communications, and then lean in to strengthen systems, clarify cadence, and elevate execution. The director will play a central role in shaping and stewarding the school’s emerging brand, bringing greater cohesion and professionalism to communications while preserving the warmth and mission centered culture that defines TQS. By refining how families experience information and community touchpoints and sharpening the school’s public facing narrative, especially around its differentiated program and student impact, this leader will help ensure that the story of TQS is told with clarity, authenticity, and purpose.
The Quaker School at Horsham was thrilled to welcome Emma Bonanomi to the position.
Meet the new leader
Emma Bonanomi is a strategic communications and marketing leader with extensive experience helping educational institutions and nonprofit organizations build their brands, deepen community engagement, and communicate complex ideas with authenticity. Most recently, Ms. Bonanomi served as Assistant Provost for Strategic Communications for Boston University, where she led communications and marketing operations for students, families, faculty, staff, alumni, and external partners. Previously, she served as Director of Communications for Boston University's research enterprise, and as Director of Communications for TNTP (formerly The New Teacher Project) in Brooklyn, NY. Ms. Bonanomi holds an M.A. in Public History from Loyola University Chicago and a B.A. in History and English from Bowdoin College.
