This interview was recorded in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 18, 2025.

Cara Page is a Black Queer Feminist cultural memory worker & organizer.

For the past 30+ years, she has organized with LGBTQI+, 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; a network of abolitionist healers/health practitioners, community organizers, researchers/historians & cultural workers building solidarity to interrupt the medical industrial complex and harmful systems of care. We generate 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 architects of the healing justice political strategy, envisioned by many in the South and deeply rooted in Black Feminist traditions and Southern Black Radical Traditions, she is co-founder and core leadership team member of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective. She was the Executive Director of the Audre Lorde Project in New York City and is a former recipient of the OSF Soros Equality Fellowship (2019-2020) and ‘Activist in Residence’ at the Barnard Center for Research on Women. She was also chosen as Yerba Buena Cultural Center’s ‘YBCA100’in 2020.

Visit her online at: https://carapage.co/

This interview was recorded on May 20, 2025 via online video conferencing.

Part 1 is an oral herstory of Deneen’s life in Ohio and part 2 is a detailed look at her family’s journey with dementia along with Deneen’s work in the area.

Deneen Day retired after a distinguished 30-year career as a Financial Crimes Investigator for the State of Ohio. Her journey as a dementia caregiver began in the 1990s when she became a long-distance caregiver for her grandmother, taking on the roles of guardian and decision-maker.

In 2007, Deneen’s mother began to show signs of dementia, marking the start of her second "tour of duty" as a caregiver. Balancing full-time work, caring for her adopted special needs son, and her mother, Deeneen became a "sandwich generation caregiver."

Deeneen’s son was just five years old when his grandmother began to show signs of the disease, and he continued to be a young caregiver until her passing when he was 17.

To support her son through this journey, Deeneen became an advocate for understanding the impact of dementia and caregiving on children, emphasizing the importance of awareness among teachers, coaches, peers, and their parents.

Her presentation is on YouTube at the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY53q_onjHc

This interview was recorded on May 20, 2025 via online video conferencing.

Part 1 is an oral herstory of Deneen’s life in Ohio and part 2 is a detailed look at her family’s journey with dementia along with Deneen’s work in the area.

Deneen Day retired after a distinguished 30-year career as a Financial Crimes Investigator for the State of Ohio. Her journey as a dementia caregiver began in the 1990s when she became a long-distance caregiver for her grandmother, taking on the roles of guardian and decision-maker.

In 2007, Deneen’s mother began to show signs of dementia, marking the start of her second "tour of duty" as a caregiver. Balancing full-time work, caring for her adopted special needs son, and her mother, Deeneen became a "sandwich generation caregiver."

Deeneen’s son was just five years old when his grandmother began to show signs of the disease, and he continued to be a young caregiver until her passing when he was 17.

To support her son through this journey, Deeneen became an advocate for understanding the impact of dementia and caregiving on children, emphasizing the importance of awareness among teachers, coaches, peers, and their parents.

Her presentation is on YouTube at the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY53q_onjHc