Maya Jackson in Kin

Maya is the model that other models want to be friends with, which tells you more about her than any measurement card ever could. With her signature waist length box braids, deep brown eyes, and the easy, magnetic confidence of someone who grew up performing, she straddles the line between athletic and editorial with a fluidity that keeps her calendar perpetually full. Raised in Inglewood by a choreographer mother and a session musician father, she was dancing before she could walk and brings a dancer's spatial intelligence to every set: she knows where the light is before the photographer does. Maya's sweet spot is the athletic luxury space, where her natural physicality and genuine love of movement feel authentic rather than aspirational. She trains in capoeira four days a week, a practice she discovered on a trip to Salvador and immediately fell in love with. Off set, she's building a community dance studio in her home neighborhood, fundraising with the same relentless energy she brings to a twelve hour campaign shoot. She is also the undisputed champion of the crew lunch order, capable of memorizing twenty custom sandwich requests without writing a single one down. This skill, she maintains, is her true superpower.