Maureen is an assistant vice president and the director of the Maryland Center for Developmental Disabilities (MCDD) at Kennedy Krieger Institute (Maryland’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service), and the founder of Project HEAL (Health, Education, Advocacy, and Law), a MCDD community-based program. Project HEAL is Maryland’s only comprehensive medical-legal partnership, which provides advocacy and civil legal services to children with disabilities who receive services at Kennedy Krieger. Maureen is an associate faculty for the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and affiliate faculty for the Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities. Maureen is a member of Kennedy Krieger’s ethics program. For more than a decade, Maureen has served on the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, Inc. board of directors.

Maureen earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Southern California, a master’s degree in developmental psychology at The Johns Hopkins University, and a Juris Doctor at Whittier Law School, with a concentration on children’s legal issues.