Tiffany Ike is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist and scholar from Houston, TX. Through her research and art practice, she utilizes different mediums including spoken word poetry, theater, visual art, and filmmaking, to discuss ideas of faith, history, and liberation in all its forms. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Madison’s First Wave Program, Tiffany studied hip hop through a “performance as activism” lens. She has had her visual work showcased in spaces such as the African American Museum in Philadelphia and performed spoken word poetry on stages like Tedx Houston. She went on to receive her MFA in Writing & Producing for Television at Loyola Marymount University, where she studied the evolution of Black TV and examining television as a historical record. Tiffany works as a producer and assistant director for multiple film and tv projects and is currently a lecturer at her alma mater. She likes fancy socks, reliving her hoop dreams in the gym, and intersecting her academic and artistic interests with teaching and community organizing in any city she finds herself living in.