Zara Cadoux

She, Her, Hers | Brooklyn, NY | Facilitator

Zara Cadoux is a Brooklyn-based popular educator, facilitator, and coach grounded in anti-oppression principles. Zara’s facilitation and teaching experience has included elementary, middle, high school, higher education, and adult learners of all ages. Zara works with both multiracial groups and white caucus spaces to connect the systemic to the institutional and individual in order to take anti-racist, anti-capitalist action. Her focus areas include systems of oppression education, popular education training design and training facilitators, toxic white womanhood, and the non profit industrial complex. At Both/And, she directs the Dismantling the Non-Profit Industrial Complex program.

Zara has a B.A. in Geography-Anthropology from Vassar College, an M.A. in Intercultural Service, Leadership, and Management from the SIT Graduate Institute, and an M.A. in Labor Studies from the City University of New York. She is a current PhD student in American Studies at New York University, where she studies the tenant movement in the context of the nonprofitization of housing struggles. She got her start facilitating in outdoor education and spent a decade working in the youth development sector in Baltimore. She formerly led Both/And as an executive director, was a lead coach for the Capital Collaborative program for white philanthropists, and directed the White Womxn Anti-Racism Alliance. Within the ultimate frisbee community, she is best known for co-founding the Girls Ultimate Movement, 99 Days of Ultimate Women, and 28 Days of Food, Frisbee, and Feminism. Her current organizing focus is building tenant power as a member of the Crown Heights Tenant Union.