Verónica Bayetti Flores

About the Author

Miriam Zoila Pérez is a queer Cuban American writer. Their non-fiction writing has appeared in outlets like the New York Times, and anthologies like Roxane Gay’s NYT bestseller Not That Bad. Their TED talk about racism and maternal health has been viewed over a million times. They are the author of the young adult novel Camila Núñez’s Year of Disasters, and co-host of the Radio Menea podcast. Pérez live in Washington, DC and are obsessed with bachata and houseplants in equal measure. 

Verónica Bayetti Flores is a queer Venezuelan writer and activist. She has bylines in Rolling Stone, Crack Magazine, and Remezcla. She is a co-host of the podcast Radio Menea, and is the co-founder of the Center for Advancing Innovative Policy, an abolitionist grassroots policy firm.

About Radio Menea: Two Latinx friends. Wildly different music tastes. Radio Menea is a Latinx music podcast (no longer currently active but still available) hosted by Verónica Bayetti Flores and Miriam Zoila Pérez. Called “the woke Latinx music podcast you should be listening to” by Remezcla and “the soundtrack to a queer mami’s sancocho” by Latina Magazine, Radio Menea is a bilingual journey through the Latinx music that is the soundtrack to Vero and Pérez’s lives, and probably yours too.