Cyepress Ifamayami Brathwaite (they/them) is a Trinidadian-American creative-theorist. Cyepress names their role in community organizing as a "pollinator", a decolonial understanding of what it means to be an artist and educator. They create portals for people to engage with African spiritual traditions and Queer Black Feminist literature. They currently work closely with words, clay, and oil paint and are starting to unfurl more into their love for dance, collage, curriculum development, and creative direction. Cyepress weaves their wisdom as a doula, herbalist, facilitator, and student of Ifá to encourage themself and others to re-channel our energy from production for oppressors into creation for ourselves, lineages, and communities. Their work is rooted in ancestral veneration, exilic exploration, Afrofuturism, pleasure activism, and freedom dreaming. Cyepress received their B.A. in Queerness and Black Identity Politics through Ithaca College's Integrative Studies Program. A poet at heart, Cyepress is their ancestors' baby.