Elif Cadoux

They, Them, Theirs | Philadelphia, PA | Facilitator

Elif Cadoux (they/them/theirs) is a social justice facilitator, collaborative artist, and arts integration specialist. They are a white, jewish, non-binary person who was radicalized by their survivorship and experience in healing communities. Their artwork and professional practice center embodied politics, creative learning, and collectivity. Elif's experiences in anti-violence work, youth development, and participatory theater inform their anti-oppression facilitation practice. As a community artist, they have taught Baltimorean middle school and high school groups video production while facilitating conversations about racial identity and unlearning racial bias, and have mentored young activists in Metro Detroit in anti-racist organizing. They are a co-founder and member of Call Your Mom, a multimedia performance collective and making family that uses video, installation, movement, and participatory performance to facilitate spaces of reflective vulnerability. They are the co-founder of Youth Voices for Consent, a FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture program that gives young Baltimorean organizers resources to fight against rape culture and build cultures of consent, and the founder of White Teacher’s Workgroup, a program for white Baltimorean teachers to address white supremacy in the classroom. Part of the FORCE staff collective responsible for the Monument Quilt on the National Mall, Elif's work has been featured in Ms. Magazine, the Washington Post, the Marshall Project, Bmore Art, and Teen Vogue. Elif’s areas of interest include youth anti-oppression education, consent culture training, white identity facilitation, and art for radical imagination.