Maya Wahrman

Maya Wahrman, LSW, MSW, is a licensed social worker in New Jersey. She is the Training Officer for Client-Centered Services at Switchboard, a one-stop resource hub for refugee service providers in the United States, and a project of the International Rescue Committee (IRC).

Previously, Maya was the Refugee Health and Wellness Specialist in the New Jersey Office of New Americans (NJ ONA) in the Department of Human Services in Trenton, NJ. Before that she served as the Director of Case Management and Refugee School Impact Coordinator at Interfaith-RISE refugee resettlement agency in Highland Park, NJ. She graduated with her Masters of Social Work (MSW) from the Rutgers University Intensive Weekend Masters in Social Work program, serving her field practicum by providing Telehealth counseling at Church Based Mental Health Services. She served as a 2020-2021 Eagleton Institute of Politics Graduate Fellow conducting her spring governmental internship at the NJ ONA. She graduated summa cum laude in 2016 from the History Department at Princeton University with certificates in Near Eastern Studies and Creative Writing. She is a published writer and poet, as well as a singer and crossword and word game enthusiast.

Maya has worked in Trenton, NJ as a Bilingual Case Manager at the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund (LALDEF), serving at Hedgepeth/Williams Middle School and as a client advocate from the main LALDEF office. Two years prior she worked as the Program Assistant in Forced Migration at the Office of Religious Life at Princeton University, where she co-curated their conference, Seeking Refuge: Faith-Based Approaches to Forced Migration, as well as an interfaith policy forum about the role of religion in domestic refugee resettlement.