Marya Meyer is the Chief Executive Officer of The Women’s Fund Miami-Dade, dedicated to creating a metropolis where power and possibility are not limited by gender.
The Women’s Fund reengineers support systems for women and girls through grantee partnerships, advocacy, research, and leveraging collective impact. Investing for over three decades in transformative initiatives, they are building a Miami-Dade where women and girls rise to leadership, achieve equal opportunity, can access equitable health care and are free from violence.
As the past One Billion Rising’s Global Coordinator for Miami, Marya worked with V (formerly Eve Ensler), V-Day Board Member Lisa Schejola Akin, and activists across the globe since 2012, when this grassroots movement united ordinary citizens and stakeholders to create the awareness and solidarity necessary to end the staggering statistics of gender violence, locally and globally. Focusing on the most significant challenges facing the South Florida community, Marya and key partners coordinated powerful grassroots RISINGS which subsequently transformed into a partnership with The Women’s Fund Miami-Dade to lead monthly meetings where public and private entities, government civil servants, activists, volunteers and all those concerned with creating Freedom from Violence could join forces and resources, including on the key issue of Human Trafficking. She served as Co-Chair of the Community Outreach Working Group of The Official Stop Sex Trafficking Campaign of the Miami Super Bowl Host Committee, with lead partners, The Office of the Miami-Dade State Attorney and The Women’s Fund Miami-Dade, of which she is past Board Chair. Marya is a bilingual English/Spanish Music and Artist Marketing Executive who prior to becoming a non profit leader, had over 25 years of international experience in the realms of entertainment and contemporary culture, Media and Artist Relations, notably having served Vice Presidential roles at the non-profit Latin Recording Academy (Latin GRAMMYS) as well as Sony Music Spain and Universal Music Latin America.
At The Women’s Fund Miami-Dade, we work collaboratively in our community to improve the quality and equality of opportunity for women and girls to thrive through our four pillars of focus: economic mobility, leadership, health & well-being, and freedom from violence.