Maud Maron

Maud Maron (born 1970/1971) is an American activist and former public defender from New York City. Formerly a Democrat, she has run for multiple offices as both a Democrat and Republican, including most recently in the 2025 Manhattan District Attorney race against incumbent Alvin Bragg. She is a former president of the New York City Community Education Council District 2.

In 2019, Maron co-founded Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum and Education NYC (PLACE NYC) to oppose Mayor Bill De Blasio's plans to widen access to selective middle and high schools. She co-founded the New York City Chapter of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism and served as its interim executive director in 2023.

In 2021, Maron ran unsuccessfully for the 1st City Council district.

Activism

PLACE NYC

In 2019, Maron and Yiatin Chu formed Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum and Education NYC (PLACE NYC) to oppose Bill de Blasio's attempts to shift away from screened middle and high schools. Maron served as co-president.

City comptroller Brad Lander launched an investigation into the group and found that it had violated city rules by improperly endorsing its own members in last spring's elections. At the October 2020 meeting of CEC 2, Maron was removed as President of the council by a vote of 6 - 5. In 2023 Maron was elected to CEC 2 again by a margin of 1/2 vote.

In June 2024, the chancellor removed her from the council following her calling an anonymous student who authored a pro-Palestinian op-ed in the school paper a coward. She was let back in three months later after an appeal. In 2025, Maron ran again for a seat on the CEC and lost the election.

Stuyvesant School Leadership Team As of March 2024, a petition to remove Maron from the School Leadership Team of Stuyvesant High School has gained over 700 signatures. It was circulated after she was quoted in a New York Post article calling an anonymous student author a "coward" guilty of "Jew hatred" and calling for their name to be public for their op-ed.

Legal Aid Society Maron worked as a Senior Staff Attorney for the Legal Aid Society. In July 2020, Maron wrote an opinion piece critical of a NYC DOE anti-bias training session. The Black Attorneys of Legal Aid caucus released a tweet criticizing the piece and stating "It is obvious to anyone with any sense of racial justice that Maud is racist and openly so". The Legal Aid Society's official Twitter account retweeted it.

Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

In 2021, Maron and Yiatin Chu co-founded the New York City Chapter of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, which advocates against Critical Race Theory and advocates a "human first" mindset critics have likened to "All Lives Matter".

Moms for Liberty

Members of PLACE have allegedly promoted local chapters of Moms for Liberty in their private discussion forums In January 2024, Maron spoke at a panel organized by Moms for Liberty, whom she has described as "one of the more dynamic and genuinely diverse parents groups to emerge from the school closure era". Maron told the New York Daily News she was not a member of Moms for Liberty, and in a statement the organization confirmed Maron was not a member. The flyer for the event listed her affiliation with the educational council but did not issue a disclaimer that the views expressed were her own.

2022 Congressional District elections

In 2022, Maron ran against Carolyn Maloney in the Democratic Primary for New York's 12th Congressional District. During her campaign, she raised concerns about the inclusion of transgender women in college athletics, stating "Now, any dude who feels like a woman is supposed to be treated like a woman. That's absurd". Maron lost with 1% of the vote.

Transgender students Maron supports policies that would ban transgender children in schools from using bathrooms or playing on sports teams congruent with their gender identity. A DOE spokesperson called the comments "despicable and not in line with our values".

Personal life Maron was born in Manhattan and lived in Pennsylvania before returning to Manhattan in the 1980s to attend Barnard College. She taught at the Cardozo School of Law from 2003 to 2005.

Maron is a mother of four. She is married to Juan Pablo and has lived in District 1 for the last 20 years.