Roberto Mighty

Roberto Mighty is the creator, writer, producer, host and director of World's Greatest Cemeteries. He is America’s first artist-in-residence at a National Historic Landmark Cemetery, where he produced 29 short films about diverse outsiders, horticulture, landscape and funerary iconography. His award-winning, critically acclaimed films, fine art photography and exhibits at Harvard University, National Science Foundation, Scandinavian Cultural Center, film festivals, museums and galleries have received extensive press coverage and national funding. Roberto’s historical documentary about Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King was broadcast on WGBH in 2020 and nationwide public TV broadcast in 2021. He is also the producer/host of getting dot OLDER, a series about aging across America, which airs on public television stations nationwide. Roberto was director of over 50 bestselling audiobooks for HarperCollins, Random House and Houghton-Mifflin publishers, where he worked with diverse authors including John Updike, Sandra Cisneros and Ben Mezrich. Roberto’s MFA in Visual Arts is from Lesley University College of Art, Cambridge. He earned his BA in History from Boston University. From 2007-2018, Roberto was Adjunct Professor at Emerson College and Instructor at Boston University, where he taught narrative cinematography, editing and video production. Roberto is also a professional musician, a proud dad, holds a black belt in taekwondo and gets lost every time he walks around a cemetery by himself.