Maria is the Assistant General Counsel for Technology at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) Office of General Counsel. As the agency’s lead eDiscovery counsel, she oversees EEOC’s litigation support department and provides strategic advice and training to more than 300 attorneys, paralegals, and legal support staff on the use, retention, storage, retrieval, and preservation of electronically stored information in pending litigation. Prior to assuming this position, she was a Supervisory Trial Attorney in EEOC’s Baltimore Field Office, where she litigated individual and systemic discrimination cases for 20 years, many of which involved ESI matters. She has worked with the EEOC in various capacities, including Trial Attorney, Attorney Advisor to former EEOC Chair Jenny R. Yang, and Administrative Judge. She is currently the President of the Federal Bar Association’s Maryland Chapter, a member of the Federal eDiscovery Working Group, and a member of the Complex Litigation eDiscovery Forum. She is also an active member of The Sedona Conference Working Group 1, currently serving as a Steering Committee member. She is a frequent speaker at eDiscovery conferences and also is a guest lecturer at the University of Baltimore Law School on eDiscovery matters. Maria is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law and Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.