Maureen is a native of Connecticut, but moved to Santa Fe via Tucson, Arizona. Having been attracted to the cultural diversity and vibrant arts community, the City Different became her home in 2014.

She has a tremendously varied professional background in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, but always with a focus on development, marketing, fundraising and sales.

While living and working in Hartford, Connecticut, Maureen became the Top Producer in a leading commercial real estate firm having negotiated the largest sale in the company's history. On the consummation of the deal, she joined the consortium of purchasers as Development Director for conversion of the property into a 2,000,000 square foot mixed-use complex. A move to the Southwest allowed her to engage professionally in the not-for-profit world as the Director of Philanthropy for Habitat for Humanity Tucson. Most recently, Maureen served as the Executive Director of Remy's Good Day Fund, a grantmaking nonprofit organization supporting solar energy projects on Tribal lands and in rural Northern New Mexico. Grantees included a variety of farm/food producing projects. The Fund invested $1,000,000.00 in Greater Santa Fe.

Volunteerism has been a key component in Maureen's life; she has been actively engaged in a multitude of nonprofit boards of directors and received several awards for Outstanding Community Service in Tucson. Her interest in food security and its importance in building community commenced in Connecticut when she was a founding and 15-year board member of a soup kitchen that grew into a muldti-faceted organization addressing the many issues of homelessness.

On moving to Santa Fe, she has served on the Boards of Futures For Children, Kitchen Angels, New Mexico Committee for Women in the Arts as Vice President of this affiliate of the Women's Museum in Washington,DC and Santa Fe Farmers' Market Institute.

Maureen attended Hollins College, Virginia and the Sorbonne University, Paris, France.

Travel is her passion, followed by film, literature and the performing arts.