Most recently, Maya was working as a Program Assistant with Credence LLC, contracted with USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance. In this role, Maya used her knowledge and skills to manage partners’ grant proposals and modification requests. She has a Masters in Public Health, concentrating in Global Health and a Masters in Social Work, concentrating in International Social and Economic Development from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

Previously, Maya worked with the Clinton Health Access Initiative’s malaria program on gender equity and with GreeneWorks on several research projects for CHAI, Plan International, and other large civil society organizations. She also worked with USAID’s HIV/AIDs’ Orphans and Vulnerable Children’s program supporting the work of Ethiopia, Lesotho and Eswatini. In graduate school, she supported Dr. Heather Cameron’s work with Girls in the Lead, guiding webinars, developing materials, and connecting organizations to key resources on sports for development, fundraising, and sexual and reproductive health. She spent a year working in the peacebuilding lobbying sector, then did international peacebuilding work in Kigali, Rwanda and New Delhi, India and taught English to 11-13 year olds in Rangsit, Thailand.