8th Annual Bay Area Chuseok Festival

Maria Chai is a tech and marketing executive with a career in semiconductor engineering and marketing leadership at companies including Google and YouTube. Born in Korea, Maria immigrated to New York City in middle school, an experience that deepened her ties to Korean culture and community.

She serves as Board Chair at Canopy, a nonprofit dedicated to growing urban forests to advance environmental equity. Her community service work includes planting and caring for trees in low-income neighborhoods and mentoring first-generation college students.

Maria holds a BSE in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan. She lives in Mountain View with her family and three dogs. She spends her free time playing piano and cello, watching classic films, and dreaming of her next Eichler renovations.