About Maja

Maja Moore is a Lowcountry native — born and raised in Hampton, South Carolina — and she is running for House District 122 because this community shaped her, and she intends to pour that back into it. Her parents, the late James “JA” Moore and Ernestine S. Moore, were rooted in service: her father, one of the first African Americans to serve in the Marine Corps and a civil rights activist, brought food banks, after-school programs, and early childhood development resources to this community. Her mother, an educator and former nonprofit executive, worked alongside him teaching teenagers job skills and holding pageants to instill confidence in young Black girls — to know that they too are beautiful, capable, and that their voices deserve to be heard. Those roots are Maja’s foundation.

Her career has always been about service and advocacy. She spent 15 years as a respiratory therapist (RT), advocating for patients in the healthcare community. Through more than 20 years of service in the United States Army Reserve, she continued that work — as an RT advocating for soldiers, as a food inspector protecting the health and safety of service members and their families, and now as an IT/cybersecurity professional advocating for the reliable and secure technology our institutions depend on. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology and has built her career at the intersection of science, technology, and public service — solving complex problems and delivering results, not promises.

That breadth of experience is not accidental. Working across disciplines, across backgrounds, and across perspectives has given Maja a unique ability to bring people together around shared goals. She understands both the technical challenges facing rural communities — broadband gaps, cybersecurity vulnerabilities in public institutions, outdated infrastructure — and the human ones: families without healthcare access, young people leaving because opportunity has followed them out the door, and communities where hope itself has begun to feel scarce.

In reminiscing on the Hampton she grew up in and compared it to what she sees today, she couldn’t just wait for someone else to act. Where others see dry soil, Maja sees fertile soil — ground that simply needs tending to. She can’t promise she has every answer. But she can promise she will serve — the way her parents served — with consistency, humility, and her whole heart.

South Carolina is the fastest growing state in the country, and Jasper County is the fastest growing county in the nation. District 122 is positioned to be part of something extraordinary — but only if its residents have a fighter in Columbia who understands where this community has been and refuses to accept anything less than where it deserves to go. Maja Moore is that fighter. She wants District 122 to be a place people want to come home to — both natives and new comers alike.