Maggie Goldman, her husband David and their son Matthew live in Johns Creek, near Newtown Park. She is a Realtor and owner of Buy & Sell Differently and has been assisting clients buy and sell homes since 2014. Maggie knows that buying and selling real estate is often one of the biggest financial investments of her client’s lives and she strives to be their advocate ensuring each stage of the process is to their greatest benefit.

She is active in her community as a Board Member of Family Promise of North Fulton/Dekalb, a mentor at Centennial High School and a Co-Founder of the North Fulton chapter of the GA NAACP . When the COVID-19 vaccine first became available, she served as a non-medical volunteer with the Fulton County Medical Reserve Corps at various COVID-19 vaccine locations. Maggie is a member of the Fulton County Democratic Party and serves as the precinct captain for JC19, helping to ensure voters in her precinct get out to vote in elections. In the 2020 election cycle she served as a pickup location for the Georgia Postcard Project which wrote and mailed postcards to Democrats in GA to encourage them to vote. In addition to organizing no contact lit drops in her precinct she served as a ballot cure volunteer with the Democratic Party of GA ensuring that voters in the general and runoff elections could fix errors with their rejected absentee ballots. During the 2019 Democratic Primary, Maggie was the unpaid volunteer coordinator for the Pete for America campaign, supporting Presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

Maggie was motivated in part to run for Fulton County Commissioner based on her experience helping hundreds of residents since 2015 in Fulton & DeKalb appeal their property tax assessments. She discovered that while technically the process is available to homeowners, they often don’t know about it at all or are intimidated by the process. Maggie has advocated for protecting the rights of homeowners through attendance at Board of Assessors meetings, engaging with department staff and participating as a member of Chairman Robb Pitts “Homestead Exemption Task Force” in 2018.

When Maggie & her husband David first moved to the Atlanta area in 2013 they owned a home in Midway Woods, just outside the City of Decatur. She got involved right away, participating in the Decatur Citizens Police Academy and taking on the role of Neighborhood Watch Coordinator in Midway Woods. Looking for a Young Democrats chapter in DeKalb, she helped spearhead the re-starting the DeKalb Young Democrats, serving as its Treasurer from 2013-2017. Maggie & David also fostered a pitbull puppy from the Fulton County Animal Shelter and helped it find a new home, just weeks after moving into their new house in September 2013.

An avid volunteer, Maggie has been awarded two volunteer honors since moving to GA. She was named the 2014 East Lake YMCA Volunteer of the Year Award for her work developing a middle school college and career program at the YMCA Youth & Teen Development Center. In 2018 she was named the DeKalb CASA Philanthropy Award recipient for being a longstanding CASA volunteer for a family of 7 children over 5 years time and coordinating a holiday gift drive for the entire DeKalb CASA caseload (250) in 2018, 2019 and for about half the caseload (170) in 2017. 

Other volunteer roles she has participated in are: Communities in Schools Classroom volunteer at McNair Middle School, member of the Avondale Elementary School Local School Council, now called the Principal Advisory Council; Advisory Board, Wings for Kids; DeKalb Association of Realtors RPAC & School Liaison Committees. She has participated in the United Way VIP Board Training (Fall 2014) & DeKalb Association of Realtors Leadership Program.

Maggie was raised in Warwick, RI and graduated from Pilgrim High School. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Trinity University in Washington DC and a Master’s Degree in School Counseling from Assumption College in Worcester Massachusetts.