Maayan Zik is an Orthodox Jewish Jamaican-American and a social activist who co-organized the Tahalucha For Social Justice which called on Orthodox/Chabad Jews in Crown Heights to march against police violence in June 2020. Since then, she has co-founded organisations such as Ker a Velt and Kamochah which further her work in social justice and racial equality. She has since been featured in Vogue Magazine, the Washington Post, The Jewish Press, and more. Maayan lives with her husband and four children in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, NY.