For five years Maya Millett was the senior and later executive book editor at StoryCorps, the national oral history organization featured on NPR’s Morning Edition. Maya worked on three StoryCorps books: All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps (2012), Ties That Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from StoryCorps (2013), and Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work (2016).

These anthologies, celebrating the lives of everyday people, were published-published (The Penguin Press) and went on to become New York Times bestsellers. 

Maya also served as the executive producer of StoryCorps Animation, producing nearly 20 animated short films based on StoryCorps broadcasts, for which her team earned the Peabody and Columbia-duPont awards, and two News & Documentary Emmy Award nominations.

These days Maya is booked and busy as a freelance writer, editor, and producer of gripping, real-life stories and working on an anthology of her own, Race Women: A project honoring our earliest Black feminist foremothers. 

Join us for part 1 of the tea Maya spills about her time in the wondrous world of black media, Martin Luther King living his best life in Aruba, Harlem furs, our feminist sisters from the past & her journey to thriving and becoming a celebrated creative.

• Find Maya @: https://www.mayamillett.com/


• About Race Women: https://www.wellandgood.com/good-advice/black-feminists-race-women/


• Follow Race Women & Maya on the Gram: https://www.instagram.com/race_women/


• StoryCorps: https://storycorps.org/
  
  

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