Maya Saoud is a hospitality professional with Moxy NYC Hotels and Moxy Hotel Group.  Previously, she served as Executive Director of the Advocacy Lab, a grassroots organization offering human rights education and advocacy skills training to New York City high school students.  Each year, the organization exposed students to the issue of sex trafficking, among many other human rights violations, and guided them in planning an advocacy campaign in their communities.  Ms. Saoud’s earlier youth-advocacy work also included representing the Melkite Association of Young Adults at the United Nations during the International Year of Youth.