Maya Siegel is a strategist and social entrepreneur who loves dreaming big and investing in projects she believes in wholeheartedly.
Since 2017, she has worked in social impact roles. She is the Platforms Manager at Feminist, the largest (6M followers across platforms) women-owned nonprofit media platform for women, girls, and gender-expansive people.
Maya is also the co-founder of Stories of Consent (SOC), the first and only national organization in the United States that uses a youth-led, peer-education model to provide consent education in states without educational mandates.
For her work, she has been named a 2024 Diana Award Recipient, 2024 Bloom 30 Under 30 Social Impact, 2023 ADCOLOR FUTURE, and2023 Estée Lauder Vital Voices Visionary. She is also a Founding Board Member at Intersectional Environmentalist.
At 18 years old, Maya helped formalize an environmental nonprofit and at 20 years old helped start an inclusive period care company that currently has products in 400+ Target stores nationwide. Now 23 years old, she is the Platforms Manager at Feminist, the largest (6M followers across platforms) women-owned nonprofit media platform for women, girls, and gender-expansive people. She is also the cofounder of Stories of Consent, the first and only national organization in the United States that uses a youth-led, peer-education model to provide consent education in states without educational mandates. In just a year and a half, they initiated conversations about consent with over 500,000 individuals and have directly collaborated with teachers and students across 14 countries and 31 U.S. states to expand consent education.
Awards:
30 Under 30 Social Impact (2024) • Diana Award Recipient (2024) • NationSwell Fellow (2023) • ADCOLOR FUTURE (2023) • Estée Lauder Vital Voices Visionaries Fellow (2023) • 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) • SOYP Youth Delegate (2019) • Girlboss Rally Game Changer (2019) • Environmental Excellence (2018)
Maya has spent the past six years leveraging her skills to advance projects she believes in wholeheartedly.
She has worked in social impact roles since 2017 leading digital strategy for initiatives including 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; 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.
