Cara Page is a Black Queer Feminist cultural/memory worker, curator, and organizer. For the past 30+ years, she has organized with LGBTQGNCI, People of Color & Indigenous liberation movements in the US & Global South at the intersections of racial, gender & economic justice, healing justice and transformative justice. She is leading a new project, Changing Frequencies, an archival/memory and cultural change project to intervene on generational trauma; seeking to unveil and hold accountable the Medical Industrial Complex as an extension of state control and policing. She is also building care & safety strategies within global movements which she began organizing nationally at the 2007 US Social Forum (USSF) in Atlanta; and the 2010 USSF in Detroit at the Health & Healing Justice People’s Movement Assembly.
She is one of the architects of the healing justice political strategy which is deeply rooted in Black Feminist traditions and shaped by Southern Black radical traditions. She is co-founder of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective; and the former ED of The Audre Lorde Project. She is a recent recipient of the Soros Equality Fellowship (2019-2020) and an ‘Activist in Residence’ at the Barnard Research Center for Women.
She continues to work with many organizations nationally & internationally which have included: Southerners on New Ground (SONG), Project South, INCITE!, the Young Women’s Empowerment Project, & the Committee on Women, Population & the Environment towards building economic, racial and gender justice strategies for our liberation, care & protection.