Bringing the latest technology trends and innovation back to the Department of Defense from today's leading venture capital firms and tech companies while providing the premiere career advancement experience for active duty service members.

Saturday Arts Lab for 1st - 12th graders nurtures the creativity of tomorrow’s artists and innovators.

The Tree House school is built upon the philosophy that children learn best through play with hands-on activities. Learning requires active participation, thinking and experimentation to see how things work firsthand.

The YMCA is a worldwide organization focused in building community and connection to help people grow in spirit, mind and body. Maria oversaw all program operations, directed and increased client enrollment, and participated in national advocacy and coalition building efforts to effect change on national YMCA policies.

Robotics, Game Design, Animation, Claymation, Programming, Electronics, GreenTech, Web Design

Maria oversaw curriculum development & mapping, online production, marketing, sales, business research & development and company culture/onboarding at Playful Learning.

Vision Education & Media is a social enterprise providing innovative technology-based educational opportunities (STEM) to students in grades K-12 in the New York metropolitan area. Maria led program operations and business development, drove sales growth, managed strategic development, brand strategy, operations, curriculum development, finances, and partnerships for VEM, as well as oversaw the Research & Development Lab and IT Systems implementation.

ARTS: Visual, Digital, Humanities, Dance TECH: Video, Podcasting, Blogging, Web Design

Founding member of the AltSchool team, raised $40M Series A & $100M Series B. Leading the expansion of multi micro school model throughout the nation, with future international network expansion. AltSchool is a team of entrepreneurs, educators, and engineers co-designing high-end user experience models and tools suite, from backend to frontend, to reengineer primary education from the ground up. A world-class technology and operations team focuses on empowering amazing educators, and building solutions that are highly personalized, rigorous, and experientially lead.

* Raising the future citizens of 2030, * Reimagining education, * Rooted and united by a collectively shared micro & macro vision of education reform.