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Myra Flynn

Myra Flynn

Host and Executive Producer, Homegoings

Myra Flynn joined Vermont Public in March 2021 and is the DEIB Advisor, Host and Executive Producer, Homegoings. Raised in Vermont, Myra Flynn is an accomplished musician who has come to know the lay of dirt-road land that much more intimately through touring both well-known and obscure stages all around the state and beyond. She also has experience as a teaching artist and wore many hats at the Burlington Free Press, including features reporter and correspondent, before her pursuits took her deep into the arts world. Prior to joining Vermont Public, Myra spent eight years in the Los Angeles music industry. 

  • “My dream is to be a part of the fabric of the country music canon at large. Like, what's it look like for me to write and sing country music from my lens? Because I have such an appreciation for the country music tradition and how it is representative of America in a way that reminds me how beautiful it is to be Black American.” — Denitia Odigie
    Homegoings
    Our Homegoings flowers: Favorite Moments of 2025
    Myra Flynn
    As you know, Homegoings is a show that invites you to eavesdrop on candid conversations with people who will challenge what you think you know. And this time — we were the ones having that candid conversation. In this episode, host Myra Flynn and producer/ director Mike Dunn reflect on the hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, often beautiful and deliciously bizarre moments on the show in 2025.
  • “My dream is to be a part of the fabric of the country music canon at large. Like, what's it look like for me to write and sing country music from my lens? Because I have such an appreciation for the country music tradition and how it is representative of America in a way that reminds me how beautiful it is to be Black American.” — Denitia Odigie
    Homegoings
    Made in America: Denitia comes home to country music
    Myra Flynn
    Musician Denitia Odigie has spent her career moving effortlessly between soul, folk, R&B, jazz, indie rock, and pop—earning a reputation as a truly genre-defying artist. But these days, Denitia has chosen a genre: Country music. A genre that’s just beginning to spotlight a wider range of voices and identities.
  • “I’ll sit in that room with all those people, and I’ll look at the altos and say, ‘I need some more Sarah Vaughan in that sound!’” — Cailin Marcel Manson
    Homegoings
    Cailin Marcel Manson ain’t your average maestro
    Myra Flynn
    Cailin Marcel Manson is a conductor, baritone opera singer, and longtime vocal studies teacher who’s performed on some of the world’s biggest stages — from the Conservatoire de Luxembourg to Carnegie Hall. In this episode, we talk with Cailin about what it means to command a space long dominated by white men — armed with Black skin, a bit of Philly swagger, and a corset.
  • "Every story that I've presented, I believe in them and I love them, and I take a long, long, long time to be sure that I am honoring the complexity of who they were."
    Homegoings
    Our ancestors were just people — Nichole Hill
    Myra Flynn
    Nichole Hill is the award-winning showrunner and creator of Our Ancestors Were Messy, a 2024 Official Tribeca Audio Selection. Through her show, Nichole is pulling the rug out from under the pedestal we tend to put figures in Black history on.
  • “ For me, my joy is the love that I have in my life, that I've always had. I've neve had to fight for [it]. Didn't have to make anyone love me. They're my people. They’ve always loved me.” — Tiq Milan
    Homegoings
    Tiq Milan: The man I always was
    Myra Flynn
    One night at a lesbian bar in New York City changed everything for 20-something Tiq Milan. A stranger handed him a flyer for a party celebrating something he’d never heard of before — transmasculine top surgery. In that moment, Tiq realized: “Ah! This is who I am.” After spending half his life living as a woman, Tiq transitioned at 22 and became the man he always knew himself to be.
  • “I was I was happy that the painting had made a statement and it had disturbed and created discomfort on the administration.” – Rigoberto Gonzalez
    Homegoings
    Rigoberto Gonzalez and the politics of painting migration
    Myra Flynn
    In 2019, artist Rigoberto Gonzalez painted a large-scale painting depicting immigrants crossing the border in south Texas. That painting grew popular. Won an award, traveled the world, even got to hang in the Smithsonian. Now, he couldn’t show his work there if he tried.
  • “Comedy got us into this, and comedy will get us out.” – Margaret Cho
    Homegoings
    Margaret Cho on using humor as a weapon
    Myra Flynn
    Comedian Margaret Cho is back on tour with her bold, unapologetic take on the state of society. In this episode, we sit down with her to talk comedy, culture, and her new national tour, Choligarchy. A tour she describes as a comedic blueprint for a better future.
  • “It's our job to reflect our community. I mean, this is the beauty of the sort of federated system we have. We should do our best to represent all the different literal types of voices in the communities we serve.” — Vijay Singh
    Homegoings
    The Vermont Public CEO on public media funding cuts and the future
    Myra Flynn
    In this episode, Vermont Public CEO Vijay Singh sat down with Homegoings host Myra Flynn just two days after Vermont Public eliminated 15 positions and changed two full-time positions to part-time as a direct result of the loss of federal funds. This is their conversation.
  • Black-and-white photo of woman pulling back hair, set in pink outline over floral background
    Homegoings
    The sexologist who’s talking about sex and racism (baby)
    Myra Flynn
    Tyomi Morgan and Myra Flynn talk about the good, bad, ugly and downright sexy reasons that sex, love – and racism – have always been intertwined.
  • Jarvis Green spent 15 years in Vermont creating theater centered around Black creatives and Black voices.
    Homegoings
    From headliner to heartbreak: The theatre director who’s starting over
    Myra Flynn
    In 2015, theatre director Jarvis Antonio Green founded JAG Productions, a theatre company that served as an artistic sanctuary for Black creatives in American theatre. Last year after losing venues and revenue, JAG took a final bow and closed its curtains for good. Soon after, Jarvis suffered other losses and heartbreak in his personal life that led to him uprooting his home, his craft and in a lot of ways — his identity.