Cara Judea Alhadeff

Cara Judea Alhadeff (born April 8, 1971) is an American photographer, performance artist, writer, activist, and yoga teacher. She has work in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[2] Her photographs have been called "unsettling"[3] and "subtly disturbing".[4] In 2009 Alhadeff received the BRIO award.[5] Professor of Transdisciplinary Ecological Leadership, Alhadeff has published dozens of interdisciplinary books and articles on critical philosophy, climate justice, art, epigenetics, gender, sexuality, and ethnic studies, including the critically-acclaimed 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 theoretical and visual work is the subject of documentaries for international films and public television. She has been interviewed by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Pacifica Radio, NPR, and the New Art Examiner. Alongside Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Vandana Shiva, Alhadeff received the Random Kindness Community Resilience Leadership Award, 2020. Her work has been endorsed by Noam Chomsky, Karen Barad, Bill McKibben, James E. Hansen, Paul Hawken, SHK-G Humpty Hump, Eve Ensler, Henry Giroux, Alphonso Lingus, Avital Ronell, and Lucy Lippard among other activists, scholars, and artists. Alhadeff's photographs/performance-videos have been defended by freedom-of-speech organizations (Electronic Freedom Foundation, artsave/People for the AmericanWay, and the ACLU), and are in private and public collections including and San Francisco MoMA, MoMA Salzburg, Austria, the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and reproduction, and include collaborations with international choreographers, composers, poets, sculptors, architects, scientists. Her art-based and pedagogical practices, parenting, and commitment to solidarity economics and lived social-ecological ethics are intimately bound. Former professor of Philosophy, Performance, and Pedagogy at UC Santa Cruz and Program Director for Jews Of The Earth, Alhadeff and her family live in their eco-art installation repurposed school bus where they perform and teach creative-zero-waste living, social permaculture, and cultural diversity.