History and a Path Forward

Maya was creative, she had an entrepreneurial spirit, she was warm, funny, generous, loving, and demanded social justice. She designed a website wireframe on a napkin when she was eight years old sitting at the kitchen counter. She strapped her boots into a snowboard for the first time when she was six. She picked up a barbell for the first time when she was eleven. She helped kids with Autism learn how to surf, helped her family raise money towards Parkinson’s research, loved animals, and cared for others and her community greatly.

Very unfortunately and suddenly, Maya passed away in 2020 at the age of 13. Knowing the goals she had for her life and what she wanted to become, her parents, Steve and Jessica, and her brother Joshua decided to create Maya’s Mission with the goal of ensuring that marginalized children and young adults across the world are exposed to STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, math) as much or as little as they want to create a path forward for themselves. They want this path for children and young adults to be built on a strong foundation of STEAM fundamentals so participants can go change the world. Just as Maya would have done if she were still physically here.