Munira serves as Eyebeam’s Director of External Affairs, overseeing the organization’s Development, Marketing, and Communications, and rallying support through innovative storytelling. She provides an early-career experience gained at a renowned economic justice organization to help grow leading community-focused cultural groups including National Sawdust, Creative Time, Queens Museum, and A Blade of Grass.
She is committed to dismantling racism, a passion recognized by activist-artists who tap her expertise in the production of new works, such as Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding.
While earning a Masters of Arts at New York University, her research examined and critiqued the effects of neoliberalism in the cultural sector. Prior, Munira received a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College.
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