Mya Edwards-Pena
Mya is an activist, artist, and college student from Los Angeles who attends Goucher College in Baltimore. She is a Venice High School graduate, Class of 2020 and is a mixed (Black and Mexicana) writer, dancer, and activist in Students Deserve. While in high school, Mya was a member of the Venice Dance team, Venice Slam Poetry team, and Black Student Union. Mya received the first Freedom Fellowship award to create and liberate with Afro-artivists around the world. She hopes to become a dance teacher and counselor and to open her own community center to provide more artistic spaces for youth. Mya resides in Los Angeles, California with her family and dog, Max.
EMBRACING THE WEEDS
Embracing the Weeds to Mya means acknowledge in the ugly parts (the weeds) in her life in order to find the healing and beauty within them.
Embracing the weeds is a collection of unspoken poems and images describing Mya’s personal journey through life from adolescence to early adulthood. The book offers Maya's thoughts in a series of vulnerable, true, and raw poems written during quarantine and handwritten poems and hand-drawn images directly from her journal she's written and kept since 7th grade.
Edwards-Peña takes you through a personal journey of her own soul and body. A confession of ups and downs to her use that can help with embracing weeds within yourself.
POWER TO THE YOUTH CHOREOGRAPHY LESSON
DANCE OF AFRO UNIDAD
This dance project featuring artists from 10+ countries across the diaspora co-choreographed by Mya Edwards-Pena and Dr. KnuckleHead. Check out the start of our Dances of the Afro-Diaspora research project here.