My work in oral history has taught me that if it is not written, we must speak it.
I have always worked on the borderlands of different disciplines, learning to trace the global historical and contemporary connections of power, profit, and resistance through art and storytelling communities.
You can listen to Town Hall Seattle's Arts & Culture Podcast, featuring one of Maia's performances as Artist-in-Residence:
When our histories are not recorded, we carry our stories in other ways. If we can’t speak it? We sing it.