maya is a Senior Consultant at Spring Impact, where she partners with mission-driven organizations to bring visions for scale to life by helping teams become true learning organizations. She supports leaders to name what’s uncertain, run smart tests, and turn what they learn into clear direction. Recent projects include: NICHQ, Power to Decide, US Digital Response (USDR), and Opportunity at Work. She has also supported testing and learning with funders such as Blue Meridian Partners, including work with Studio investees.

Before Spring Impact, maya worked across education and student support. She began as a Teach For America corps member, then moved into partnership and talent work at Teach For America. She later supported student-athletes and undergraduates at UCLA, and served as a Learning Specialist at the University of Texas at Austin Athletics. Her professional journey also includes work in community mental health, child welfare, and with communities whose power is rarely centered, including incarcerated fathers and houseless college students.

She holds a B.A. from Spelman College in Comparative Women’s Studies (with a focus on women’s health disparities) and dual Master’s degrees from UCLA in Social Welfare and Education in Transformative Coaching and Leadership.