Myra Kathiria Rosa (they/she) is an award-winning Afro-Puerto Rican Pan-African transdisciplinary cultural worker and autoethnographer from The Bronx, whose multimedia practice spans poetry, photography, and film. Driven by meliorism, she devotes her life to serving as a conduit for human stories, celebrating the multiplicity of identity and advancing social justice.
Before pursuing her career path at the intersection of academia and the arts, Myra worked in the fashion industry and as a social worker. In 2018, following Hurricane María, she began documenting Afro-Indigenous oral histories in Puerto Rico through video, audio, and photography to honor and preserve collective memory. She later received a two-year Mellon Foundation fellowship (2020–2022), which deepened her practice in autoethnographic storytelling. In 2022, she founded Race to a Future, a production company dedicated to creating digital media that amplifies the voices of marginalized individuals. Rooted in care, imagination, and radical narrative work, her creative practice bridges community and art.
Myra’s bilingual poetry collection, meliorism. (2024) explores the cosmic and ancestral through lyrical fragments. Her second short film, Pura Sangre (2025), developed as part of her Master of Arts from New York University, explores love, diaspora, and healing through an avant-garde lens. She’s currently producing four films that chronicle affective registers throughout various communities. Her films have been screened at festivals in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Myra currently divides her time between New York City and the U.S. South.