Though she produced two plays, Maiya's main extracurricular activity in college was as an editor on the Harvard Lampoon, our nation's oldest humor magazine. She graduated second in her class and then went on to Harvard College where she majored in American History and Literature. Her senior year Maiya also became editor-in-chief of the yearbook. Maiya went to Berkeley High School, where she was on the field hockey and softball team her freshman year, and speech and debate team, MESA, Junior State and Model U.N. Let's just say Maiya was curious about just about anything. During this formative period Maiya developed a wide range of interests, including a passion for art and architecture, animals, the environment, American history, biology, classical and jazz music, David Bowie and the Beatles, astronomy, Judo, horse back riding, sailing, aquariums and the sea in general, archeology, anthropology, folklore and mythology.well, I could go on. She loved all forms of story telling, devouring books like potato chips, writing and putting on plays with her friends, writing parodies of radio shows and staging mysteries, setting up crime scenes in the living room and leaving a plethora of clues for her sister to solve. Maiya Williams was born in Corvallis, Oregon but grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, then moved to Berkeley, California when she was in 6th grade.
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