Maria is a graduate of New York Law School and joined Mayerson & Associates in 2009. Prior to law school, Maria was a special education teacher for the New York City Department of Education and taught students with autism in a 6:1:1 District 75 classroom. Maria also worked for a private agency in New York and New Jersey, providing early intervention services. While Maria very much enjoyed her work as a public school special education teacher, she struggled with the fact that some school-based programs were neither adequate nor appropriate and were not sufficiently individualized to meet the unique needs of each student. Ultimately, that internal struggle is what prompted Maria to leave teaching and go to law school.