Grooming-awareness educator and child-safety advocate. Rono started Maitreya after her work on child safety reached hundreds of thousands of people and made one thing clear: no existing platform was built to help people find each other safely. Background in neuroscience and computational biology (UCLA), now building the trust layer those platforms skipped.

Multidisciplinary artist and documentary producer (Compton's Finest), trained in art and ethnic studies at UC Berkeley with an MFA in fine arts from Parsons School of Design. Her work on identity, race, and beauty in America has shown at venues including Phillips and MOCA's Geffen Contemporary. At Maitreya, Haleigh keeps the company honest to the people it's built for — guarding the ethics of how it builds and the integrity of how it shows up and what it promises.