Maxine Page will always be a DJ at heart (but doesn't do birthdays, weddings, or Bar Mitzvahs). She is also a journalist, editor, and on-air commentator with a background in music, news, pop culture, travel, and design.

​Maxine left her hometown of London in 2000, going on to live in Los Angeles, New York, Mexico City, Acapulco, Oaxaca de Juárez, Medellín, and Málaga.

​Maxine worked in radio, music, and journalism across various forms and genres — including a torturous 15-year stint in US tabloids. She was a National Enquirer/Trump "whistleblower" and collaborated with The Washington Post and Ronan Farrow on Catch & Kill and Weinstein #MeToo stories and podcasts.

​Maxine Page has an opinion on pretty much everything, except Phil Collins, weirdly. Not surprisingly, she can write a mean op-ed — figuratively not literally, unless required. Even so, she knows when to keep her mouth zipped and opinions unexpressed.

​Maxine is passionate about music, politics, pop culture, human rights, and societal and judicial reform. After leaving school at 16, she rapidly cycled through various mind-numbing, fast-paced sales jobs (it was the 1980s, after all) until she stumbled onto her career path. They included an unsuccessful attempt at dealing BMWs, flogging fax machines and phone systems (Ka-Ching!), and (almost) selling sanitary napkin disposal units to pubs — a gig that sadly ended before it even began thanks to a (wrongful, name-coincidence) arrest during the training course.

​Following her decidedly lukewarm sales era, Maxine Page became a residential social worker, spending two years caring for very troubled teens at a last-stop-before-juvenile-detention-facility. She loved the job and even considered pursuing a social work degree, but realized she was too young and too soft a touch at that time, easily manipulated, and struggling to set and maintain boundaries that the girls required and even craved.

However, the experience further sparked Maxine's interest in and awareness of social inequity, systemic societal inequality and bias, and the urgent need for criminal justice reform. Decades later, in her early 50s, Maxine earned a First-Class BA (Hons) in Criminology and Sociology from the Open University, studying remotely while also working full-time.

​Maxine is an obsessive documentary watcher and podcast consumer — the more wretched, unjust, heartbreaking, and politically deep-diving, the better. But, she’s 100% not above binging 12 seasons of MAFSA non-stop, as was the case during the COVID lockdown. Maxine Page is also a media masochist who loves dissecting Alt-right ideology and conspiracy theories. In addition, Maxine paints, scavenges for furniture to upcycle, creates weird (unique?) art pieces, and advocates for causes she AGAF about.

You won't find me on LinkedIn or X. The former because I am totally over creepy dudes creeping into DMs and being bombarded with endless irrelevant PR pitches. The latter because it's utterly toxic and I despise Elon Musk. 

I also have a limited presence on Facebook and Instagram, with both profiles set to private. After decades of being held hostage by my phone, I now try to spend as little time as possible on it and  remain present, which gives the added bonus of avoiding photos and stories from people I really couldn't care less about, who pretend their lives are fabulous.

That said, I'm more than willing to be a social media whizz and bona fide addict for work purposes in return for cold hard cash.   

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