Chérie N. Rivers’ work—as writer, teacher, mother, and radical Black ecologist—is rooted in her commitment to interrupting modern colonialism with the transformative power of imagination. Animated by this priority, she has written numerous books and articles about critical creativity, most recently To Be Nsala’s Daughter: Decomposing the Colonial Gaze (Duke University Press 2023). She also founded and runs an educational biodynamic freedom farm, Uzuri Sanctuary, which builds on the Black Atlantic tradition of agroecology to revive indigenous ecological practices that have been demonized by modern colonialism. Beyond yielding food and natural medicine, the cultivation and foraging practices at Uzuri Sanctuary emphasize the relationship between imagination and liberation. Rivers is an associate professor of Geography at UNC Chapel Hill.