“It’s clear what the police were there for. Bismarck, an affluent community, didn't want the pipeline going through and damaging their water. But it was okay to put it within one mile of the only source of water for Indigenous people. And who did the police protect? They protected the pipeline. They protected those in Bismarck. They didn't protect those being harmed the most: the Indigenous people on Standing Rock Reservation.”

As a child of immigrants, Maya has found passion and purpose fighting for climate action and migrant justice in Toronto, Ontario.