A Miami native, Kunya Rowley is a community, social impact, and arts leader. He is the founder and Artistic Director of Hued Songs, a non-profit that celebrates Black culture through artistic experiences, as well as the Music Access, Arts, & Culture Manager at The Miami Foundation, leading the Foundation’s effort on making music education & the arts more accessible in Greater Miami. Kunya is a graduate from The University of Florida and is an alum of New World School of the Arts’ opera program. In 2017, Kunya was the recipient of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight Arts Challenge grant, which propelled the founding of Hued Songs. Kunya's artistic practice is fueled by his own sense of growing up feeling both culturally & ancestrally lost. His work, however, centering Black music & history, gives light to a path, a purpose, and a promise that originated many centuries before him and many miles from where he stands, yet still undeniably his own. Since its founding, Hued Songs has gone on to produce performances across South Florida, providing a platform on which Black & Brown artists can be seen, heard, and paid, working to remove community barriers to arts access. Kunya is a member of the NAACP Miami-Dade chapter, as well as the GMCVB LGBTQ Tourism Advisory Committee. Through his work, Kunya seeks to build community through music and to be a conduit for accessible arts across a multi-cultural platform.