About MĀYĀ
About MĀYĀ Murry
Māyā Murry exists at the intersection of worlds that rarely meet. As a Computer Science graduate from Cornell University and full-time software engineer at a healthcare venture for social equity, she programs with the aim to dismantle systems that do not serve the collective. Her technical mastery spans from adversarial machine learning to full-stack development, but her code carries something beyond—a vision of technology as a pathway to liberation.
Behind the algorithms and neural networks lives an artist whose documentaries screen to hundreds, whose murals transform communities, and whose poetry bridges the intimate and the political. Her films like "Love as Revolution" and "Our Ancestors Are Still Singing" weave stories of resistance across cultures, while her large-scale public art projects have raised over funds for different grass-roots and liberation movements.
In every line of code she writes, every frame she films, every artwork she labors into, Māyā strives to ask and answer the same question again and again: How can we move closer to the freedom we dream of through what we put out into the world? How do we create futures that carry the past forward—transformed and transforming?
Where Code Meets Canvas
Indigenous Futurism
Originally introduced to me through science-fiction, Indigenous Futurism (المستقبلية الأصيلة) is a movement that centers Indigenous ways of being as the architecture for tomorrow. It is a daily practice of carving out time to reimagine what freedom should look like. Through art and writing, we open real, tangible routes that guide us toward this future—creating small spaces each day for worlds that should and will exist.
Each day, we must dream of building worlds where we lose the identities we built around our wounds, worlds where liberation becomes a state of being, not just imagining. In my creative work, I explore how this daily reimagining transforms resistance into regeneration, turning our visions into inevitable realities that must be reckoned with.
As Walidah Imarisha puts it, "whenever we try to envision a world without war, without violence, without prisons, without capitalism, we are engaging in speculative fiction. All organizing is science fiction."
"We are not vanishing. We are becoming."
"نحنا ننولد من جديد و لا نختفي في الأفق"
Digital Ancestralism
"Technology isn't neutral—it carries the values of its creators. I choose to build systems that remember where they came from and know where they're going. Every algorithm is an ancestor, every dataset a story, every application an act of cultural preservation or destruction."— Māyā, 2025