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Leaders shaping our cultural future
LEADERSHIP / HUMANIDADES PUERTO RICO

Humanidades Puerto Rico

Sonya
Canetti
Mirabal.

Keeping Puerto Rico’s stories within everyone’s reach.

For more than three decades, she has worked at the intersection of publishing, public media, education, and the humanities. Now, as executive director of Humanidades Puerto Rico, she is helping expand access to the island’s history, culture, and collective memory.

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30+
Years devoted to the humanities
2022
Named executive director
Sonya Canetti Mirabal seated before a colorful tiled mural in Old San Juan
Sonya Canetti Mirabal at Museo de las Américas, Old San Juan. Photograph: Gabi Pérez / NEH.
PROFILED BY THE NEH
HUMANITIES
The National Endowment for the Humanities
Spring 2024 · Volume 45, Number 2
FEATURED PROFILE
Puerto Rico’s Sonya Canetti Mirabal
Read the NEH feature
BEYOND THE TITLE

A career built around cultural connection.

Educated in comparative literature at the University of Puerto Rico and Latin American literature at NYU, she built a career across publishing, teaching, and public broadcasting at WIPR. Today, her work advances EnciclopediaPR and Cosecha Cultural, connecting communities with Puerto Rico’s cultural record.

“giving them a voice through the arts and humanities.”

Sonya Canetti Mirabal, interviewed by HUMANITIES, 2024
Editorial based on the NEH’s Spring 2024 feature.