Maya integrates the documentary form with techniques in experimental film, video art and installation. Through these hybrid strategies, her work expands the language and form of time-based moving image work to give visibility to marginalized histories. Maya has had a lifelong commitment to art as a form of activism, critically engaging with issues of race, gender, class, labor, and diasporic identities. 

Working under various noms de plume, and often in the style of cinécriture, her work has been presented at film festivals, screenings, and exhibitions in the US and internationally including the Harlem Film Festival, New York NY; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; and the Busan International Film Festival, Busan South Korea. Her education includes an MFA in Studio Art and a Diplôme en Lettres et Langues from the Université de Paris III La Sorbonne Nouvelle. She can usually be found in Paris or Brooklyn, where she is cultivating our garden.