Maya Gayer is a program manager, content editor and creator with a vast professional experience in the media field. Her main mission and expertise is making academic knowledge accessible to the general public.

Based in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Maya has worked for the past decade as a senior director of programming and content editor at GLZ Radio (a public station with one of the largest audiences in the country). She served as editor-in-chief of “The Broadcast University”—one of the station’s flagship programs, in which top Israeli scholars deliver lectures and are interviewed in series dedicated to subjects such as democracy, the climate crisis, feminism, religion and state, and immigration. She is also the co-editor of the program's book series. As senior director of programming at GLZ, she was responsible for the Holocaust Remembrance Day broadcasts. Preserving and shaping collective memory in this framework has ignited her initial interest in oral history.

In the past few years, Maya also established and directed the Persitz Program in Arts Management in the Tel Aviv–Jaffa municipality and was head content editor of the science documentary series “The Future is Already Here” aired on KAN (the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation). Additionally, she taught radio and podcast production at Sapir Academic College and the University of Haifa.

Maya holds an MA magna cum laude and a BFA summa cum laude in Film and Television studies, from Tel Aviv University. Maya was awarded the Fulbright fellowship in Public Humanities to pursue an MA in Oral History, through which she aspires to find new ways to tell stories, spread knowledge and promote cultural creation for a more humanistic and liberal society in Israel.