Welcome to Power Breakers!
Power Breakers is a new interview series where every other week, we’ll bring you a conversation on the people and ideas that matter in this election cycle and beyond.
We’ll make you think. We’ll make you question. We’ll make you hope.
Power Breakers is a project of Square One.
Square One seeks out the most promising Democratic women, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ+ community to run for Congress in long-overlooked red districts and states, and provides the high-impact, hands-on support they need to launch, run, and win their groundbreaking campaigns — against all the odds.
Tell me more about the host, Maya Rupert!
Maya Rupert is political strategist and writer. She is also the host of When We Win with Maya Rupert, a podcast with Lemonada Media. Her forthcoming book, All That We Are, will be published by Dutton Books in 2025. In 2020, she served as campaign manager for Julián Castro’s presidential campaign and is only the third Black woman to have managed a major presidential campaign. When Secretary Castro exited the race, she joined Elizabeth Warren’s campaign as a Senior Advisor. In 2021, she managed Maya Wiley’s NYC Mayoral campaign.
She currently serves as a Senior Advisor at the Center for Reproductive Rights leading several campaigns and external relations projects. In Spring of 2022, she was a Harvard Institute of Politics Resident Fellow, where she led a study group on dismantling the myths that keep many people out of careers in politics.
Maya is a nationally respected voice on progressive politics and the future of the Democratic party. She has appeared as a guest on national television and radio including for MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and SiriusXM.
Maya has also been a contributing writer to a number of outlets where she frequently addresses the intersection of race, gender, culture, and politics. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Teen Vogue, and Slate. Maya contributed a piece to the anthology How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation, released in 2018. Maya has previously been awarded NABJ Salute to Excellence awards for her writing. She has been recognized by national outlets including Ebony Magazine and The Root for her leadership in the Black community.
Maya received her B.A. from U.C. Santa Barbara and her J.D. from U.C. Berkeley. She clerked for the Honorable Eric L. Clay of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. She is on the Board of Directors of the National Women’s Law Center.
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