• Royce Fellowship
Loira
Limbal

Concentration 

Gender Studies

Award Year 

1999

Loira will research the effect of racial formation on women's roles in Dominican societies in the United States and in the Dominican Republic. Her work will include documenting the stories of women leaders and developing a summer program for young Dominican/Latina women that combines creative writing and history.

Loira is the Vice President and Producers' Lab Director for Firelight Media. Limbal is also a Latina filmmaker and activist who directed and produced Estilo Hip Hop, a documentary that chronicles the lives of three hip hop activists from Brasil, Chile, and Cuba. Estilo Hip Hop was an official selection of the Tribeca All Access Institute and it aired nationally on PBS in June 2009. For the past decade, Limbal has dedicated herself to fusing arts and activism. She has worked at various community-based organizations in New York City including The Point Community Development Corporation, The Dominican Women’s Development Center, and Sista II Sista. In 2006, she founded The Reel X Project, a social justice and creative filmmaking space for young women of color in the Southwest Bronx. She is a graduate of the Third World Newsreel’s Film and Video Production Training Program. She has received awards from the Bronx Council on the Arts, the Open Society Institute, the Ford Foundation, and the Lisa Sullivan Fund.