Mitzy Sky

Mitzy Sky is a Jamaican-born award-winning writer, her focus is on the intersections of race and gender. Her work particularly explores the theme of letting go of internalized oppression to move from shame to presence beyond labels. Her achievements include winning first place in the 2023 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest for her #SupportisNecessary campaign. Additionally, she secured second place for her single-verse poem What if? and a special interest video of the same title. In 2023, she published her poetry collection, Top of the Zinc Roof: Poems Observed from Behind the Veil with a Glimpse of the Light. Her poem In This Moment was featured in We Are the Change-Makers – Poems Supporting Drop the Disorder and was recognized on the Black Movement History Leaders: Past & Present list created by Wildflower Alliance and New Life II Recovery Community Organization. Mitzy serves as Vice President on the board of Picture Social Justice (PSJ), a nonprofit founded by the late Paula J. Caplan, Ph.D., and is also a board member of the National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy (NARPA). Additionally, she is a member of the Upward Spiral Summer Series committee and Mentor through LETsLead Academy, at Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH). She created the Beyond the Story© project, maintains a blog at www.mitzysky.com, and produces the documentary series Just Doing the Little Things on Substack.com/@mitzysky.