Draft:Maia Pearson

Maia Pearson (born December 1987) is a community organizer and the vice president of the Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education.

Personal life
Pearson is a Madison, Wisconsin native. She attended Madison public schools through high school, graduating from Madison West High School in 2006 and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012.

Election
In 2020, Pearson announced her grassroots campaign for Madison's Board of Education seat 6, after Kate Toews decided to not seek re-election. Pearson won the primary election with 43 percent of the vote over her two challengers. Unfortunately, Pearson came up 3,052 votes short during the April general election, earning 47.9 percent of all votes. In 2021, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pearson decided to campaign for seat 1, held by incumbent Gloria Reyes, who announced she would not seek re-election. Pearson run unopposed and was elected to the Madison's Board of Education on April 2021. Currently, she is running unopposed for her second term.