Myra Kathiria Rosa (she/they) is an award-winning Afro-Puerto Rican transdisciplinary cultural producer and autoethnographer from the South Bronx. Her multimedia practice—spanning poetry, photography, and film—celebrates the multiplicity of identity and advances social justice through a meliorist lens.
Before transitioning into the arts and academia, Myra worked in the fashion industry and as a social worker. Following Hurricane María in 2018, she began documenting Afro-Indigenous oral histories in Puerto Rico to honor and preserve collective memory. This work earned her a two-year Mellon Foundation Fellowship (2020–2022), deepening her autoethnographic storytelling practice. In 2022, she founded Race to a Future, a production company dedicated to creating digital media that amplifies marginalized voices and bridges community and art.
Her bilingual poetry collection meliorism. (2024) explores the cosmic and ancestral through lyrical fragments. She is currently producing four films chronicling affective registers across Indigenous communities. Her films have screened at festivals throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Myra divides her time between New York City and the U.S. South.