Maya Bianca Enista

National Field Director of the Hip Hop Civic Engagement Project

NLLC 2003 Youth Leader of the Year

Maya Bianca Enista, 20, is a native of Maplewood, New Jersey. Her mother, Alina, is a psychoanalyst and her brother Duncan is a sophomore at Union College in Schenectady, NY.

New Light Leadership Coalition, Inc. chose Maya as the 2003 Youth Leader of the Year for her work in the community.

She currently attends Rutgers University with a double major in Political Science and Urban Studies. She is the former Northeast Regional Coordinator for Rock the Vote and currently holds the position of National Field Director of the Hip Hop Civic Engagement Project.

The Hip Hop Civic Engagement Project is an organization that grew out of the success of the first ever Hip Hop Political Convention this past June in Newark, NJ. Over 7,000 activists and organizers from around the country came to Newark to debate, discuss and ultimately vote on the youth political agenda for the upcoming Presidential Election and beyond. From their excitement, the Hip Hop Civic Engagement Project was born and expanded to 13 states. In those 13 states, they have to date registered over 100,000 new voters in the "hip hop generation."

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