Cara Judea Alhadeff, PhD

Cara is an anarchist mother, performance artist, photographer, writer, climate-justice organizer, and educator, has published dozens of critically-acclaimed books and essays on eco-spirituality, fibersheds, critical philosophy, sexuality, art, petroleum parenting, and living our ecological ethics including Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle, A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era and Viscous Expectations: Justice, Vulnerability, The Ob-scene. Alhadeff’s forthcoming book, Unlearning What We Think We Know (Vernon Press), will be performed during the World Affairs Conference. Her photographs/ performance videos are in private and public collections including San Francisco MoMA, MoMA Salzburg, Austria, the Palmer Museum of Art, the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, and include collaborations with international choreographers, composers, poets, sculptors, architects, and scientists. Alongside Vandana Shiva and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Alhadeff received the Random Kindness Community Resilience Leadership Award, Award, 2020. In 2022, Alhadeff was nominated for a MacArthur Fellow. Her theoretical and visual work is the subject of documentaries for international public television/ radio. A former professor of Critical Pedagogy & Performance at UC Santa Cruz and Founder of Radical Art in Action, Alhadeff teaches, performs, and parents a creative-zero-waste life. She and her family live and perform in their eco-art installation repurposed school bus. www.carajudeaalhadeff.com.