Before joining the Centre for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism, Maya was part of the independent research group "Anthropology of AI in Policing and Justice" based at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. She is co-editor of States of Surveillance: Ethnographies of New Technologies in Policing and Justice (Routledge 2024). She studied for her PhD at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. Her dissertation considered the organisation of the legal environment in Palestine/Israel, with a particular focus on Palestinian Bedouin land claims in the Naqab region and the West Bank. The research was based on extensive ethnographic research. In 2018, she was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University.