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Myra Kathiria Rosa (she/they) is an Afro-Puerto Rican multimedia artist, cultural worker, and storyteller from New York City. Her work spans writing, photography, painting, and film, engaging themes of memory, identity, and justice.

Myra began documenting Afro-Indigenous oral histories in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María in 2018, using video, audio, and photography to preserve and honor collective memory. In 2020, she was awarded a two-year Mellon Foundation fellowship, where her practice in autoethnographic storytelling flourished. In 2022, she founded Race to a Future, a production company dedicated to developing digital media content that increases visibility for marginalized communities. Her creative practice is rooted in care, imagination, and radical narrative work.

Her bilingual poetry collection, ‘meliorism.’  (2024), explores the cosmic and ancestral through lyrical fragments. In 2025, she began an autoethnographic documentary chronicling Black and Indigenous food sovereignty practitioners in Florida. 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 currently splits her time between New York City and the U.S. South.