Kyra Rost (she/her) is a fifth-year Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University. She received her MA in Sociology from Ohio State University, in August 2024 and her BS in Sociology from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas in December 2021.

Kyra's research interests focus on black girlhood, race, media studies, social determinants of health, and crime and punishment. She has conducted research with the Housing and Health Equity Lab since 2023, working on multiple projects in the lab, including a qualitative study, Examining the Impact of Pandemic Eviction Prevention Policies on Racial Inequalities in Mortality.

Her dissertation aims to understand anti-black girl violence, within the education system, generationally, and coping strategies employed by black girls to meditate race and gender based discrimination.