Maggie is a multimedia journalist based in New York City focusing on mental health, social justice, women’s issues, gender and sexuality. She is the producer of The Guardian’s What Would a Feminist Do with Jessica Valenti, assistant producer at WNYC and host of an upcoming NBC Universal documentary series. She was a producer for NPR’s Latino USA and is a former NPR Next Generation Radio fellow at KJZZ in Phoenix. 
She was also the producer of Audio Files, a live hour-long radio show which airs bi-weekly on WHDD and WHCR and a production intern at WHYY’s NewsWorks Tonight in Philadelphia.
Her work has been featured in NBC New York, NPR’S Latino USA, WHYY, WHYY’s The Pulse, Popular Science, Boston Globe, The Huffington Post, and Voices of New York. She was the New York blog correspondent for Stop Street Harassment and was the production assistant at WAM! (Women, Action, and the Media).
Maggie graduated with an M.A in Radio Broadcast and Health & Sciences from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in December 2015. 
She earned a B.A in Journalism and English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2011.
Growing up in New York but moving to Northampton, Mass. for school, she embraced the rural life: owning chickens, contributing to the Greenfield Recorder’s “Going Green” and “Outdoor Adventure” issues and working as the external affairs outreach assistant at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
She returned to New York in 2012 following an offer at Women’s eNews. At WeNews she most notably wrote about low-wage female workers in retail and fast food right when the Fight for $15 was kicking off in Times Square.
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