Myra Flynn
Host and Executive Producer, HomegoingsMyra Flynn joined 开云体育 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 开云体育, Myra spent eight years in the Los Angeles music industry.
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A recent episode of Brave Little State about raising a biracial child in Vermont is followed by a conversation with two Vermont parents of biracial children.
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Ash Diggs is funny. So funny in fact that one of his jobs is to make people laugh. He鈥檚 a stand-up comedian who grew up in the South, moved to Queens, New York in 2021 but hails from Vermont. We speak with Ash about the relationship between comedy, addiction and depression, and how art can be both an enabler and a healer. -
Brave Little StateSweeney Grabin is Indian. Her husband, David, is Jewish. Sweeney wants to know how to maintain her family鈥檚 cultures for her 2-year-old daughter, Maya, while living in such a white state. -
Audra McDonald, singer, broadway and television star 鈥� is a household name. As well as being the winner of six Tony Awards, two Grammys and an Emmy, The 53-year-old is also a bit of a truth-teller, to say the least. Earlier this summer, we sat down with Audra for a conversation on life, activism and navigating an artistic career in traditionally white spaces. -
A recent episode of the podcast Homegoings, Black birth: Laboring for justice.
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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 鈥� 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, 鈥淗ow are you doing?鈥� It鈥檚 a simple question, but the answers are anything but.
