Maya Nazor was born in Mexico City, the third of her five children. She was five when her parents divorced when she was four and she was taken to Peru to live with her grandparents. At the age of fifteen she began an odyssey that would take her from Peru to Bolivia, through Bolivia to Argentina and then Spain and finally back to her native Mexico. This was to be the defining period in her life as she would go on to find her destiny in the United States of America and become known as the Princess of Hazard.
Maya Nazor is one of those very few women of distinction who had an odyssey that was simply to become a much better person and a much sought after profession in the United States of America. When she was discovered to have this unique combination of height, education and ethnicity it was of great interest to many because it meant that she had taken on a new identity. This was to make her much more diverse in nationality, language and culture. But her pursuit of this was not without its own set back. She was denied citizenship and was not allowed to practice as a lawyer because she was not considered “a good enough citizen” to practice law.
Today, forty years later, Maya Nazor is a United States citizen and a practicing attorney. This accomplishment is largely due to the support system that was available to her in the form of the National Association for Legal Assistants. This organization made it possible for her to work in any legal profession in the country. Without this support network, her career would not have been what it is today. The members of NALA helped her attain all of her goals and desires in the legal profession and helped her achieve the heights of success that are now seen in her work today.