Cara Page (she/her) is a Black Queer Feminist writer, cultural memory worker, organizer & producer.

For the past 30+ years, she has organized with LGBTGNCQI+/Black, Indigenous & People of Color liberation movements in the US & Global South at the intersections of racial, gender & economic justice, healing justice and transformative justice. She is founder of Changing Frequencies, an abolitionist organizing project that designs cultural memory work to disrupt harms and violence from the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC). She is also co-founder of the Healing Histories Project, which deepens and expands relationships between and among abolitionist healers/health practitioners, community organizers, researchers/historians & cultural workers building solidarity to interrupt the Medical Industrial Complex and harmful systems of care. While also generating change through research, action and building collaborative strategies & stories with BIPOC-led communities, institutions and movements organizing for dignified collective care.

As one of the co-architects of the healing justice political strategy; she is co-founder and core team member of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective. She was the former Executive Director of the Audre Lorde Project in New York City and the former National Coordinator of the Committee on Women, Population & the Environment. She is a former recipient of the OSF Soros Equality Fellowship (2019-2020) and ‘Activist in Residence’ at the Barnard Center for Research on Women. In 2020 she was chosen for the Yerba Buena Cultural Center’s ‘YBCA100’. She is co-editor and author with Erica Woodland, of the anthology, “Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care & Safety”(North Atlantic Books) is out now and available for purchase here. She is also director, writer and producer of the Virtual Reality film/installation, ‘Psalm for the Mismemoried’, a new project to elevate disappeared stories of the Medical Industrial Complex to reveal systemic abuses and harms towards transforming them.

Cara has organized and worked with many political and cultural organizations nationally & internationally including; Sins Invalid, Southerners on New Ground (SONG), Project South, INCITE! Women & Trans People of Color Against Violence, Bettys Daughter Arts Collaborative, and the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Currently she works with the National Queer & Trans Therapist of Color Network, EqualHealth Campaign Against Racism, and the Anti-Eugenics Project; toward building racial, economic, gender & healing justice strategies for our liberation, collective care & safety.

Follow her on IG @changingfrequencies