She holds an MA in International Communications from the University of Leeds and a BA in Political Science and Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto. After living in Brazil and the UK, Maya returned to Toronto where she worked on several community-engaged media projects. She has taught digital storytelling and stop-motion animation at the National Film Board of Canada and worked on The Book of Negroes miniseries with Conquering Lion Pictures. In 2005, she launched Third Culture Media with support from the Michaëlle Jean Foundation. Her films have screened at festivals across North America and Europe and sold to Air Canada and the CBC. Maya is a recipient of the CBC/WIFT-T Business of Broadcasting Mentorship and a fellow of the RIDM Talent Lab. She is currently in production on The Haircut with CBC Short Docs, and co-hosts a podcast called The Gaze with Aisha Jamal.