Myra Flynn
DEIB Advisor, Host and Executive Producer, HomegoingsMyra 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.
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In America, birth is a business; a cultural, political and for-profit system. And currently that system, for Black women, is in crisis. In this episode, host Myra Flynn speaks with a midwife, a doula, and swaps birth stories with two Black women. Together they discuss the joy, the trauma and the needed reckoning to address the racism baked into the pregnancy-industrial complex. -
Host Myra Flynn sits down with artist Stephanie Wilson in her first interview since her double mastectomy and breast cancer diagnosis. Together they talk about her ongoing journey toward healing, and her work to break the generational cycle of secrets she believes made her sick in the first place. -
Host Myra Flynn talks with three couples about their love journeys, and how through hopes and dreams, the winds of change, and a heartbreaking history … nevertheless, Black love persists. -
Host Myra Flynn unpacks one soul food recipe: collard greens, with local and world-renowned chefs, and even her own mother. Together they explore how the history of a once undesirable food mimics the resilience, innovation and perseverance of a once considered undesirable people. -
In this episode, host Myra Flynn asks Black men, “How are you doing?” It’s a simple question, but the answers are anything but. -
In this second episode of Homegoings, host Myra Flynn speaks with three women of color about their journey toward finding themselves beautiful in a world dominated by a Eurocentric beauty standard. -
In this first episode, host Myra Flynn speaks with Reverend Arnold Isadore Thomas, the Pastor of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Jericho, Vermont about what makes a home, a home? It may be a place, or a feeling, or maybe it’s a person you’ve been homesick for. Or a people. -
In this final episode of the five-part video series, Homegoings: A Live Performance, host Myra Flynn welcomes visual artist, song-writer and performer Liza Phillip. -
In the fourth episode of the five-part video series, Homegoings: A Live Performance, host Myra Flynn welcomes poet/emcee and teaching artist Rajnii Eddins. -
In the third episode of the five-part video series, Homegoings: A Live Performance, host Myra Flynn welcomes soul-folk singer-songwriter DonnCherie.
