Maya Arigala graduated from George Washington University Law School with high honors in May 2023. During law school, Maya served as a student attorney for the Jacob Burns Community Legal Clinics. In this role, Maya worked on ongoing employment discrimination litigation at the D.C. Office of Human Rights. She gained additional experience in labor and employment litigation as an intern with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights in Spring 2023, where she partnered with their Economic Justice Project to build reproductive justice advocacy into their existing civil rights divisions. In her third year of law school, Maya founded the Reproductive Data Privacy Initiative, established under GW Law’s Ethical Tech Initiative.
After law school, Maya was the If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice fellow at Positive Women’s Network-USA. In this role, Maya engaged in state and federal policy advocacy impacting women and gender diverse people living with HIV.
Prior to law school, Maya graduated from Reed College in 2020 with a B.A. in Comparative Literature, with a focus in Postcolonial Studies.