Maya Moretta is a program delivery associate at Schmidt Sciences. Through her work, she supports program teams and awardees as they progress through the entire grant life cycle, from proposal submission to final evaluation.

Prior to joining Schmidt Sciences, Maya developed her passion for progressive and equity-focused grant making while designing and launching a progressive, equity-focused general operating support grant program at Maryland Humanities in Baltimore.

Maya holds a B.A. in History and African-American Studies from Georgetown University, where she focused on the intersections of history, education and social justice. Throughout her time at Georgetown, she was a core member of the GU272 advocacy team which launched an internationally-recognized reparative justice initiative. She also supported the development of Nikole Hannah Jones’ 1619 Freedom School, a culturally-sustaining curriculum for an after-school program in Waterloo, Iowa which centered Black History.