Maya Siegel (she/her) is a digital strategist and social entrepreneur who advocates for people and the planet. She loves dreaming big and investing in projects she believes in wholeheartedly.

At 18 years old, Maya helped formalize ThinkOcean as an environmental nonprofit and at 20 years old helped start August, an inclusive period care company that currently has products in nearly 500 Target stores nationwide. Now 22 years old, she is the Social Editor and soon-to-be Head of Social at Feminist, the largest (6.3M followers on Instagram) women-owned media platform for women, girls, and gender-expansive people.

Maya’s work rests at the intersection of social media and social impact. Since 2017, she has led social strategy for projects including Intersectional Environmentalist, a climate justice nonprofit 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 is also the co-founder of Stories of Consent (SOC), an award-winning digital project sharing personal community-sourced stories about how affirmative consent looks and feels. In its first three months, SOC has collected 100+ stories of affirmative consent from individuals ranging in age from 15 to 35 in 9 countries, had their stories read by more than 300K people, and secured an international opportunity in Australia to lead consent education and policy research.