Maryse (they/them) is a white, Jewish, and trans facilitator, fundraiser, and radical social worker. As a disabled and neurodivergent organizer, they have been active in movements for healing justice, disability justice, sex worker organizing, racial justice, economic justice, and LGBTQI+ liberation for over twenty-five years. In 2018, Maryse co-founded the Sex Worker Giving Circle (SWGC), the first sex worker-led fund housed at a U.S. foundation, and joined Third Wave’s staff in 2019 to continue that work. In 2021, Maryse became a fundraiser for Third Wave’s Spotlight Funds (the SWGC, the Accountable Futures Fund, and the Disability Frontlines Fund), before becoming the Director of Development in 2023. Raised in NYC, Maryse now lives, gardens, and hikes on Mahican land in the Northern Catskills region of New York with their partner and dog, along with their many non-human neighbors in the hemlock-beech-maple forest.