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.

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

While in her home state, she became the Top Producer in a leading commercial real estate brokerage firm having negotiated the largest sale in the company’s history. On the consummation of the deal, she joined the purchasers as the Development Director for the conversion of the property into a 2,000,000 square foot mixed-used complex. A move to the Southwest allowed her to engage professionally in the non-profit world as the Director of Philanthropy for Habitat for Humanity Tucson. Maureen most recently filled the role of Executive Director of Remy’s Good Day Fund, a grantmaking organization which supports solar energy projects on Tribal lands and in rural Northern New Mexico. Grantees included a variety of farm/food producing projects. The fund invested nearly $1,000,000.00 in Greater Santa Fe.

Volunteerism has been a key component in her life; she has been actively engaged in a multitude of boards being recognized in Tucson for Outstanding Community Service. Her interest in food security and its importance in creating community commenced in CT when she served 15 years as the Vice President of an organization which started as a soup kitchen, expanded into many programs, including a cooking school. On moving to Santa Fe, she sustained that interest by serving on the board of Kitchen Angels.

Other board service in New Mexico includes Futures for Children, and acting as Vice President of New Mexico Committee for Women in the Arts, an affiliate of the Women’s Museum in Washington, DC.

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

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