Maiya Zwerling served as the National Organizing Manager for FCNL Advocacy Teams (2013-2018). She founded the FCNL Advocacy Teams, a network of hundreds of Quakers and friends lobbying to build congressional champions for peace and justice.
Previously, Maiya served as policy assistant on the Middle East. Alongside lead Middle East lobbyist Kate Gould, Maiya lobbied to support a negotiated settlement to the Iran nuclear standoff and to promote an enduring peace in both Syria and Israel/Palestine. Throughout this period, Maiya focused on bolstering FCNL’s Middle East grassroots and grasstops network of advocates. She played key roles in developing the messaging and lobby training for the 440 people who attended FCNL’s #DiplomacyWorks lobby days in November 2014. Maiya also took on the core organizing work that enabled FCNL to bring 50 grasstops lobbyists to Washington.
Originally from Portland, Oregon, Maiya graduated manga cum laude from Bryn Mawr College with a BA in Anthropology and Psychology. Pursuing her interest in enacting change through grassroots mobilization, Maiya spends her free time organizing the Jewish community around a just resolution to the Israel/Palestine conflict. She always has a knitting, crochet or sewing project in the works.
