Maya Quetzali Gonzalez is a Texas-grown/Brooklyn-based artist, arts worker, and organizer.
As a director and choreographer, she has worked on and off-Broadway, as well as regionally and in indie theater spaces, and has developed choreography at UCLA's Dancing Disability Lab. She is an Associate Member of SDC. 
Maya serves as the Grants Manager for the MAP Fund. Since joining MAP in 2020, Maya has managed the distribution of more than $8 million to performing artists across the country at the forefront of innovative and equitable creation practices. Maya has also served as reviewer/panelist for organizations such as New York State Council on the Arts and YoungArts. She is a member of Women of Color in the Arts and is on the board of IndieSpace.
Maya is a 2020 Magna Cum Laude graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she was a Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholar.  She is a volunteer with Jane's Due Process and was previously an organizer with the Sunrise Movement. 
This picture of her was taken by Lauren Eliot for cohort six of the Leon Levy Foundation Roundabout Directors Group, and accurately represents how often she wears jumpsuits and sneakers.