Bosses for Babies

How This Boss Makes an Impact for Children in Florida

Marya Meyer and the Women’s Fund are committed to creating a compassionate work environment that offers support to employees through the joys and challenges of life. Life’s significant moments require attention and care, and so the Women’s Fund, though not bound by the Family and Medical Leave Act, offers paid medical and family leave to all full-time employees after twenty-four continuous months, because they know peace of mind matters in times of hardship or family crisis. If employees have used all of their accrued time off, they are still eligible for up to twelve weeks of time off per twelve-month period, during which they will still earn one-third of their usual pay rate.

Paid family and medical leave can be utilized in a number of ways, such as recovering and caring for one’s self or a family member when a serious medical condition arises or managing necessary exigencies during an immediate family member’s active military duty. Additionally, it can be used to bond with a new child within the first year of birth, in cases of newborns, or the first year of placement in cases of adoption.
 

Bio

Marya Meyer is the Executive Director of The Women’s Fund Miami-Dade. As One Billion Rising’s Global Coordinator for Miami, she has worked with Eve Ensler and activists across the globe since 2012, when this grassroots movement united ordinary citizens and stakeholders to create the awareness and solidarity necessary to end the staggering statistics of gender violence, locally and across the globe, in our lifetimes. Focusing locally on the greatest challenges facing the South Florida community, Marya and key partners coordinated powerful grassroots “RISINGS”, which subsequently transformed into a partnership with The Women’s Fund Miami-Dade to lead monthly meetings where public and private entities, government civil servants, activists, volunteers and all those concerned with creating Freedom from Violence could join forces and resources, including on the key issue of Human Trafficking.

In the last few years, Marya served as Co-Chair of the Community Outreach Working Group of The Official Stop Sex Trafficking Campaign of the Miami Super Bowl Host Committee with lead partners, The Office of the Miami-Dade State Attorney and The Women’s Fund Miami-Dade, the latter of which she is immediate past Board Chair. She is also a member of the South Florida Human Trafficking Task Force, Miami-Dade Human Trafficking Coalition, and advisory boards for Design & Architecture Senior High and the TJ Martell Miami Host Committee. Prior to her work with The Women’s Fund, Marya spent 25 years in international bilingual music as an English/Spanish Music and Artist Marketing executive, spanning the realms of entertainment and contemporary culture, media and artist relations, talent booking, and artist management. Notably, she served in Vice Presidential roles at the Latin Recording Academy (commonly known as the Latin GRAMMYS) as well as Sony Music Spain and Universal Music Latin America.