About
Current status: Head of Operations (and employee #1) at Anchor. Before this, I ran community at betaworks. Somewhere in the middle of that, I co-founded and ran a startup called Magic Numbers which made a short-lived but much-loved little app called Glitter. And before that, I was Aviary’s Director of Sunshine (really) and also a product manager. My degree is in psychology and linguistics because 18 year olds make bad decisions.
Current obsessions
- Playing: Zelda Breath of the Wild
- Reading: Wool Omnibus
- Watching: many horror movies
- Working on: ANCHOR 24/7
Stuff I do
- Talk to people (feel free to email me or call in to my Anchor station!)
- Teach people how to use twitter
- Play a lot of Minecraft
- Sing a lot of karaoke
Public speaking / Panel moderation
- 30 Weeks
- Coalition for Queens
- General Assembly
- Social Media Week
- fbStart
- WeWork
Stuff I’ve made
- Whole 30 Problems, a blog about dieting (and a list of recipes if you want to play along)
- Looking to Help, a newsletter I’ve been sending out since the 2016 US presidential election giving people explicit, small, concrete actions they can take to make things better
- The Derry Connection, a website that attempts to list out all connections ever found between books in the Stephen King universe
- Product Secrets, a meetup for PMs, engineers, and designers
- Maya’s Bloody Blog, a place where I keep track of all the Bloody Marys I drink
- Don’t Eat My Brain, a zombie blog
- Standing Clock, a simple way to track how long you’ve been standing at work
- New Favorite Song, a playlist I’ve been keeping since 2009 of all my favorite songs as I discover them
Notable achievements
- I’m a Level 6 Wood Elf Druid in a long-standing game of D&D where my friends and I routinely attempt to befriend monsters instead of battling them
- Meat Loaf left me a voicemail once
- I met Tommy Wiseau and made him say “Oh hi, Aviary”
- I was filmed for a zombie documentary that was never released
- I once played The Sims for so many hours that I started hallucinating