Mahara has worked as a community development specialist for over a decade. From starting at grassroots level, she has quickly progressed to more senior roles. Mahara has a wide range of experience on a range of different boards and committees. This includes NHS committees to housing associations (both big and small)
Mahara is Director and founder of My Landlord Cares LTD, which is an ethical letting agency. Their slogan is to ‘support tenants to settle and stay’. She is a landlord and property investor and wants to change the conversation around the private rented sector. She is a TEDx speaker and her talk was on ‘Private landlords need to more’ at Sheffield Hallam University.