Maxine Page is a muso, DJ (who doesn't do birthdays and/or Bar Mitzvahs), journalist, editor, and on-air commentator. She has a background in music, news, politics, 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 now Málaga.

Maxine has worked in the radio and music industries, as well as journalistic roles across various media formats and genres — including a 15-year stint in the cutthroat world of US tabloids. She was an AMI tabloid/Trump "whistleblower" and collaborated with The Washington Post, and Ronan Farrow on Catch & Kill and Weinstein #MeToo stories. Maxine also has an opinion on pretty much everything — except Phil Collins — so weird. 

But, yeah, she can write a mean op-ed — figuratively, not literally (unless required/desired).

Maxine Page is passionate about music, politics, pop culture, human rights, and systemic societal and judicial reform. 

After leaving (being pushed out of) school at 16, before finding a career path, Maxine burned through a slew of mind-numbing, fast and furious sales jobs, including a (very short and hugely unsuccessful) attempt to sell BMWs; flogging faxes and phone systems (Ka-Ching!), and marketing sanitary napkin disposal units — a gig that ended very promptly when I got (wrongly and unjustly) arrested during the training course. 

Following the sales nonsense, Maxine Page began working as a residential social worker, spending two years caring for very troubled girls at a residential home, which, sadly, was a last stop chance for many of the kids before juvie. 

Despite absolutely loving the work and almost signing up to study for a social work degree, Maxine concluded that she was too young at that stage to set boundaries effectively and avoid manipulation. Not surprisingly, she was immediately pegged as an easy mark — for good reasons.

Still, it further sparked Maxine's passion for social justice, inequality, and reform. With that in mind, decades later, in her early 50s, Maxine studied Criminology and Sociology and graduated from the Open University with First-Class honours. And, sure, the OU is far from Ivy League, but if anybody thinks studying remotely while working full-time is an easy ride, they need to stop playing beer pong for an hour or two and rest up on the daytime weed-smoking.

Meanwhile, Maxine's an obsessive documentary watcher and podcast consumer— the more wretched, depressing, and deep dive political, the better. She's also a media masochist who loves to dissect Alt-right ideology and conspiracy theories. 

In addition, she paints, furniture scavenges to "upcycle," and creates generally weird (unique?!!!) stuff.  Oh, and engages in advocacy and campaign work for causes that she actually GAFA.