Maya is a recent graduate of Harvard from Dunster (go meese!), where she concentrated in Social Studies with a field in Health and Inequality in the United States. Her global health work has included spearheading health projects in Uganda through a non-profit, Raise Uganda Now as well as using nanoparticles to develop low-cost diagnostics in West Africa at the Broad Institute. In college, she spent time studying health policy, working as a Public Policy Fellow at Cuyahoga County to investigate healthcare in jails, interning as a minority health specialist at the US Department of Health and Human Services, and working as a health policy analyst at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Her thesis focused on access to medicine for opioid use disorder in jails. An avid health policy and biomedical researcher, she has published multiple articles and conducted research about drug delivery systems, COVID-19, and healthcare in jails.

On campus, she was the sole undergraduate on the Non-Discrimination Policy Working Group, a peer concentration advisor for Social Studies, and the vice president of the Harvard College Debating Union. In her free time she loves going for picnics by the Charles, doing martial arts, and chasing sunsets.