Mariah is a junior at College Park High School in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is an avid reader and has exhibited this passion within Cinnamongirl by being one of the 14 girls to publish the first Write Your Story anthology and now leads the Passport Book Club alongside her Cinnamongirl sisters.

She is heavily involved at her school, serving as Junior Class Vice President, founding member of a start-up organization called Block CP, head of the Sports Leadership Committee, and Secretary of the Black Student Union.

She is appreciative of her support system and seeks to be a mentor to young girls to show them their dreams can become realities.