Maeve Plummer is Feminuity’s former Director of Research & Learning and now leads special projects as they also explore further education. Maeve embraces a global and intersectional perspective in their work and practices compassion in their approach, synthesizing storytelling, interactive exercises, illustrative data, media, and comprehensive policy analysis to help bring about a more equitable workplace and world.
Maeve holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Sociology and Gender & Sexuality Studies from the College of the Holy Cross, spending their junior year abroad at the University of Oxford. While at Holy Cross, Maeve ushered in policy changes making it one of the first Catholic universities in the United States (U.S.) to provide gender-inclusive housing accommodations. Following undergrad and some professional experience, Maeve returned to the University of Oxford and completed their Master’s in Comparative Social Policy exploring the different ways select U.S jurisdictions recognized chosen family in workplace leaves and care entitlements. In addition to these academic qualifications, Maeve is a certified Human Resources professional.
Maeve has a passion for LGBTQIA+ justice spending over a year conducting research and international outreach for the Digital Transgender Archive, the first online repository of transgender history. Maeve also worked as an associate at Out & Equal, a nonprofit dedicated to global LGBTQIA+ workplace inclusion
As a queer activist, professional, and scholar, one of Maeve’s major goals is to replace reductive and binary thinking with the empathy and complexity embodied in the human experience.
Maeve is a white, American, non-disabled, neurodivergent, trangender, and queer person. Outside of work, Maeve enjoys travel, television, fashion, memoir, and socializing with friends at their favourite brunch spot or café.