Maya Ajmera
Founder
The Global Fund for Children
Featured Speaker at 2012 Hunger Banquet

Maya Ajmera, 44, is the founder of The Global Fund for Children and the co–author of many Global Fund for Children books, including the award–winning Children from Australia to Zimbabwe and Faith. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Maya has received numerous leadership awards, including the 2011 Henry Crown Fellowship at the Aspen Institute. She is sought out nationally and internationally to address audiences on local and global philanthropy, global children’s rights, early childhood development, and social entrepreneurship.

Her work and life story have been profiled by such media outlets as CNN, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Financial Times, and NPR. Maya serves on the board of visitors of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and is vice chairman of the board of Echoing Green, a trustee of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, and a board member of New Global Citizens. She also serves on numerous advisory boards, including those of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University, Washington Area Women’s Foundation, and the American India Foundation.

She holds a master’s degree in public policy from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and a bachelor’s degree in biology from Bryn Mawr College. In 2007, she married to David Hollander Jr., an intellectual properties attorney at Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg.