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 was named a 2023 ADCOLOR FUTURE, a 2023 Estée Lauder Vital Voices Visionaries Fellow, and a 2023 NationSwell Fellow. She is also a Founding Board Member at Intersectional Environmentalist and a member of Hinge's One More Hour Advisory Council.
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, an organization devoted to community-based consent education that shares stories of affirmative consent. SOC’s education model currently impacts middle and high school students across 45 U.S states.
Awards:
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) • Youth Expert (2019) • 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.
