Maya Martin Cadogan

Founder and Executive Director
PAVE (Parents Amplifying Voices in Education)

DC, her people, and issues of equity and social justice are in Maya Martin Cadogan’s history, heart, and home. Maya is a proud 6th- generation Washingtonian whose great-great grandfather, George Martin, is featured on the cover of “Black Georgetown Remembered”, a book celebrating the vibrant history of what was once a 200 years old thriving Black community in the Georgetown and Foggy Bottom neighborhoods of DC. A product of an excellent education and public policy programs targeted to low-income families, Maya was raised by a single mother from Harlem and the Bronx who is a lifelong educator and born to a native Washingtonian father who was an attorney representing taxicab drivers. She currently resides in DC’s Ward 4 with her husband James Cadogan, an attorney and former Obama Administration official who is the Executive Director of the National Basketball Social Justice Coalition, and their son, Xander.

Prior to founding PAVE in April 2016 with an all-parent board of directors, Maya was an Entrepreneur in Residence with New Schools Venture Fund. Previously, Maya served as the Chief of Staff at Achievement Prep, a public charter school network in Ward 8, as the Director of Policy and Special Programs for Center City PCS, another DC charter network with six campuses, as a Senior Program Manager for Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), a non-profit that places students of color in corporate financial internships, and as an Assistant Director of Admissions for her alma mater, Dartmouth College. Maya also serves as the Board Chair of LEARN – DC, a public charter school that opened through a first-of-its-kind parent-driven selection process, as the board vice chair of the PIE Network, a Board member of EmpowerK12, and as a member of the US Department of Educations’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Education Laboratory. Maya received her bachelor’s degree in Sociology and History from Dartmouth and Master’s of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.