Born in San Antonio, Texas, Maya began dancing at the age of four with Filipino folk dance before continuing her training in ballet. She studied at the Ballet Conservatory of South Texas and was accepted at 16 into the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA). After graduating from UNCSA, she attended the University of Chicago, where she earned a bachelor's degree in public policy with minors in human rights and philosophy. While in school, she also danced with Ballet Chicago’s studio company. Following graduation, Maya joined Kansas City Ballet’s second company for two seasons before dancing as an apprentice with Madison Ballet. Her performance highlights include appearing at the Kennedy Center, performing Anabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Nube Blanco and Mark Morris’s Sandpaper, dancing the Sugar Plum Fairy, and dancing in the corps of Giselle and George Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco. Last season, Maya danced in Ballet Hispánico New Yorks’s Pa’lante program. This is Maya’s first season with Ballet Hispánico New York as an apprentice.  

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