Miriam Romais is the News Literacy Project’s senior manager of educator engagement, combining her experience as a leader in the nonprofit world with a lifelong commitment to advocating for equity, education and visual literacy.

She received a certification in media literacy in 2021 from Palavra Aberta’s EducaMídia program in São Paulo, Brazil. Before joining NLP in 2018, she worked with the Center for Photography at Woodstock in Woodstock, New York, and spent more than two decades at En Foco Inc., a nonprofit in the Bronx, New York, supporting photographers of Latinx, African and Asian heritage and Native Peoples of the Americas and Pacific. There, she created workshops, exhibitions and grant opportunities for hundreds of artists and served as executive director from 2005 to 2014. She also was the publisher/editor of En Foco’s photography journal, Nueva Luz, which during her tenure won three Ippie Awards and received four Lucie Award nominations for photography magazine of the year. Her personal photographic work has been awarded several grants and has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad, including El Museo del Barrio, the Museum of the City of New York and the Smithsonian Institution.

Prior to her career in the arts, Miriam worked as a photojournalist in the 1990s in New Jersey. She has been involved with curriculum development for the Motorcycle Safety Foundation, in addition to training hundreds of their RiderCoaches and over 2,000 novice motorcyclists. Miriam holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Rutgers University/Mason Gross School of the Arts and an MBA from the State University of New York/Empire State College with an advanced certificate in Global Brand Marketing.