Maya Mumma, ACE, was an editor on the Academy Award winning documentary O.J.: Made in America for which she was honored with a Best Editing award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, an ACE Eddie, and a Primetime Emmy.
Maya began her career in the edit room of the Academy Award nominated documentary Restrepo, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. She has gone on to edit the Emmy nominated films Which Way Is the Front Line From Here: The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington (HBO) and Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley (HBO), the Peabody Award winning Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (HBO), as well as A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers (PBS), and the Netflix original series Daughters of Destiny. Recently Maya edited the Emmy winning King in the Wilderness (HBO), edited and produced the Emmy and Peabody award winning True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality (HBO), the Emmy nominated 3-part Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union (HBO), and Time Bomb Y2K (HBO). Her work will next be seen in The American Revolution, a 6-part 12-hour series from Ken Burns, premiering on PBS in November.
Originally from Oklahoma, Maya has a BA in Social Anthropology from Boston University, an MA in Media Studies from the New School, and is a graduate of the New School's intensive Documentary Media Studies program. In addition to editing, she has taught filmmaking to New York City public school students and teachers, and has served as a mentor for the Firelight Media Documentary Lab, the Open City Documentary Festival Assembly Lab, the TFI/A&E IndieFilms StoryLab, the Chicken & Egg Pictures (Egg)celerator Lab, and the Sundance Contributing Editor Fellowship. She is the current president of the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship.