Tue 31 May 2022
Meet Maya
Posted by mbcstaff
Hey everyone!
My name is Maya, and I am super excited to be joining Mediate BC as the summer Administration Assistant for the Child Protection Mediation Program (CPMP). I have spent the past year on the Board of Directors and am stoked to get be a part of the production side of MBC.
I grew up on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. I am currently in post-secondary, getting my BA in the field of law and justice, following an advocacy journey I have been on for the past two years. I have been promoting youth participation in our family justice system since I was 16, when I attended my first Access to Justice BC meeting. From there, I have been able to share my experience and thoughts on child rights at a variety of conferences, including those hosted by Continuing Legal Education, the Provincial Court of BC Judges Training Conference, and helped represent Greater Vancouver at UNICEF’s child-safe cities Summit.
I have had the privilege of being a member of the Youth Advisory Committee for the Society of Children and Youth of BC, the Youth Voices Leadership Group, the Children and Youth Resilience & Family Justice Organizing Group, and a youth co-researcher for the grassroots organization InWithForward. Apart from school and volunteering, I own too much tie-dye, I am a fur mom and have an outdoorsy family, which makes me outdoorsy by association.