Mikey Cordero is a Brooklyn-born, Puerto Rican transmedia storyteller, filmmaker, and creative agitator committed to documenting the complexities of identity, displacement, and resistance across the Puerto Rican diaspora. A second-generation Nuyorican, Mikey serves as the Creative Director of Defend PR Media LLC, where he leads multimedia campaigns, documentaries, and cultural interventions that challenge colonial narratives and amplify Boricua voices.

As a Bridging the Divide Fellow (2022–2024) at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO), Mikey launched Diaspo Rico, a transmedia storytelling project that documents migration experiences of Puerto Ricans across generations. Combining oral histories, photography, portraiture, and video, the project delves into historical trauma, cultural assimilation, and the resurgence of repatriation, highlighting how colonization has shaped — and continues to reshape — Puerto Rican identity. Through immersive storytelling, Diaspo Rico builds bridges across the diaspora and contributes to a growing conversation around decolonization and cultural sovereignty.

Mikey is also the co-founder of Machete Labs, a creative incubator for emerging Puerto Rican media makers, developed in partnership with the Ford Foundation. The lab offers mentorship, political education, and production support to a new generation of artists shaping the future of Puerto Rican media.

His award-winning directorial work includes For Those to Come (Best Documentary Feature, Puerto Rico Film Festival 2022) and We Still Here (Audience Award, Urbanworld Film Festival). His short doc War Against Our Schools (2021) centers the fight for educational equity in Puerto Rico. Mikey also produced East WillyB, a web series satirizing gentrification in Brooklyn, and his photography was featured in Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It (Netflix).

A longtime youth advocate, Mikey co-founded Scope of Work (S.O.W.), a talent development hub that supports BIPOC creatives in New York through mentorship and industry access. He previously spent over a decade directing arts education programs in NYC, and he currently serves as Director of New Media at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI).

Now based in Santurce, Puerto Rico, Mikey continues using multimedia storytelling to preserve cultural memory, provoke critical reflection, and inspire social change across diasporic communities.