Maggie Goldman, her husband David and their children Matthew, Charlie and Sarah 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 the Chair of the Fulton County (Homeless) Continuum of Care Board which oversees the use of federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funding in Fulton County. For the last two years she has co-chaired the committee that facilitates the annual Point In Time Count canvass for unhoused individuals in North Fulton. Her work with the Fulton CoC and as a Board Member of Family Promise of North Fulton/Dekalb which offers a rotational emergency shelter program for families has driven her passion for improving the services available to those individuals in our community facing housing insecurity.

Maggie and her family are members of Congregation Dor Tamid, affiliated with the Reform Movement of Judaism. Matthew enjoys religious school on Sundays and the family enjoys participating in the many Jewish holidays. Dor Tamid makes sandwiches weekly and where she first learned of The Sandwich Project which collects hearty sandwiches weekly that are distributed to various locations where residents are facing food insecurity. Maggie organized the 2025 Barnwell Elementary School PTO sponsored MLK Day service project in partnership with The Sandwich Project. The response from the school community was overwhelming and the families made over 400 sandwiches and could have made 500! What made the event most special - a student who attended the service day has decided to participate weekly with The Sandwich Project all on her own, showing what a great impact we can have on our children by offering valuable opportunities and letting them make it their own.

As a member of both the Greater North Fulton and Johns Creek Chambers of Commerce, Maggie participated in the 2023 Leadership North Fulton class learning about nonprofits, government entities, local businesses and economic development in North Fulton. She has served as a mentor at Centennial High School, Co-Founder of the North Fulton branch of the GA NAACP, and as a non-medical volunteer with the Fulton County Medical Reserve Corps.

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.