Maia is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Ecology at the University of Victoria, she is also a writer and filmmaker. A recipient of the Lorene Kennedy Environmental Scholarship, her research focuses on memory as a tool of resistance in the face of corporate abuse, specifically deforestation and the climate crisis. Her reporting appears in Teen Vogue, VICE, Vogue, High Country News, and Canada’s National Observer, among many others. In 2018, she was awarded the CC Faces of Innovation for her work at the UN Climate Talks in Bonn, Germany. In June 2019, as a member of The North Face New Explorers Arctic Expedition, Maia reported for Teen Vogue on the unfolding climate crisis. In 2020, she was selected as a National Geographic Early Career Explorer to document cross-border salmon stories and the threats to wild salmon from mining in Northern British Columbia. Maia’s directorial debut, the short documentary Walking Two Worlds, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2022. Maia was recently selected for the 2024 Woodstock Filmmakers Residency to work on her debut feature documentary, Wild, Wild East. The progression of her academic work, and as a writer, filmmaker, and community organizer, has compelled her to focus on the intersectionality of climate justice and wielding storytelling as a tool for justice. Maia seeks to connect diverse audiences on climate justice and corporate abuse through dynamic mediums of academia, film, writing, and community organizing.