Maia Moore is a Program Assistant at IFYC, a Chicago non-profit focused on bridgebuilding and racial equity work Previously, she served as an intern in Washington, DC and Tokyo, Japan with the U.S. Department of State through the United States Foreign Internship Program. Maia hopes to pursue a career as a Foreign Service Officer.

Maia earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Economics and Chinese Studies from Valparaiso University. During her studies, she received the Department of State Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship, Freeman-Asia Scholarship, and Fulbright (Taiwan). In addition, she studied at National Taiwan University as a 2019-2020 Blakemore-Freeman Fellow for Advanced Chinese Studies. She reads and speaks Mandarin.