Ms. Maia Woluchem

Maia Woluchem is a Tech Fellow on the Civic Engagement and Government team at the Ford Foundation, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Public Service at the Wagner School of Public Service at NYU, teaching a course on segregation. At Ford, she works across a range of civil society organizations on examining the intersection of technology and civil society. She received her MCP in Urban Planning from MIT in 2019.

Prior to her graduate work at MIT, Maia was a researcher at the Urban Institute, where she focused on how data and technology could democratize opportunity in support of social change, with a particular emphasis on ensuring community engagement and leadership with respect to how data is used, analyzed, and collected. While at Urban, Maia also helped foster the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, a network working to advance the effective and equitable use of data across government, civil society groups, and academia.