Maya Siegel is a Coloradan who advocates for people and the planet. She loves dreaming big and investing in projects she believes in wholeheartedly. At 18 years old, Maya helped start an environmental nonprofit and at 20 years old an inclusive period care company that currently has products in 400+ Target stores nationwide. She now works at Feminist, a media platform with 6.3M followers and is the founder of Stories of Consent, a digital project sharing personal community-sourced stories about how affirmative consent looks and feels. For her work, she was named Social Innovator of the Year 2023 by the Oak and Tides Foundation and LookUp and has spoken at the U.S. Department of State, Microsoft, and Colorado State University.
Maya has worked in social impact roles for leaders in the environmental, menstrual equity, and human rights spaces since 2017. Some projects she’s proud to have led social for include Intersectional Environmentalist, a climate justice nonprofit centering BIPOC and historically under-amplified voices, Emerging Radiance, a mural and AR experience that won Best Immersive Project at Tribeca in June 2022, and the TOMFORD Plastic Innovation Prize powered by Lonely Whale, a $1.2M prize purse for alternatives to thin-film plastic. She has worked on projects for companies including Google, Bumble, Gurls Talk, and her work has been featured in The Washington Post, MTV, and the NYT Upfront.
At 18 years old, Maya helped start an environmental nonprofit and at 20 years old an inclusive period care company that currently has products in 400+ Target stores nationwide. She now runs her own web design company and works at Feminist, a media platform with 6.3M followers. She is also the founder of Stories of Consent , a digital project sharing personal community-sourced stories about how affirmative consent looks and feels.
Awards:
Social Innovator of the Year (2023) • MURALS winner for Service Learning & Leadership at CSU (2021) • Gurls Talk Ambassador (2021) • 25 Under 25 Social Entrepreneurs (2020) • Youth Expert (2019) • SOYP Youth Delegate (2019) • Girlboss Rally Game Changer (2019) • Environmental Excellence (2018)
Maya has spent the past five years leveraging her skills to advance projects she believes in wholeheartedly. Some projects she’s proud to have led social for include Space to Speak, a digital community for GenZ survivors of sexual assault that helped raise $118K in four months for survivors experiencing domestic violence during the pandemic, Emerging Radiance, a mural and AR experience that won Best Immersive Project at Tribeca in June 2022, and the TOMFORD Plastic Innovation Prize powered by Lonely Whale, a $1.2M prize purse for alternatives to thin-film plastic.
Maya has worked with nonprofits, startups, and large companies in marketing, consulting, and outreach roles. She is a natural problem solver that brings creativity, integrity, and passion to every project she works on.
Since 2018, Maya has designed over 30 sites for a clientele of predominantly well-known GenZ leaders and purpose-driven organizations that are challenging the status quo in their industry. Her design for Climate Cardinals was featured in the Washington Post in April 2020.
