Maya Morton Ninomiya is from Ontario, Canada and of mixed European and Japanese descent. Maya is a Research Officer at the National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research. She will be working on a narrative review on colonization and cancer under the supervision of Dr. Lisa Whop and Dr Raglan Maddox, in addition to other knowledge translation projects.

Maya Morton Ninomiya is currently completing an undergraduate degree in Health Science at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.