Yolande A. Cadore

Yolande has dedicated more than two decades to advancing social justice through community organizing, movement building, nonprofit leadership, and public policy advocacy. She has worked with grassroots organizations in New York City and across the United States to build community power and advance equitable systems change. Her previous leadership roles include serving as National Field Director at The Praxis Project, Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Drug Policy Alliance, and Director of Movement Strategy at the Vera Institute of Justice.

Her scholarship and teaching examine the intersections of urban social problems, race, public policy, and community power. Her research interests include Black church advocacy, mass criminalization, community-based participatory research (CBPR), environmental justice and climate change, and oral history methodologies rooted in the West African Griot tradition. Through her research and practice, she explores how communities organize to challenge structural inequities and create transformative social change.

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• Title:
  
• Distinguished Lecturer, Urban Studies
• Telephone:
  646-313-8466
• Email:
  yolande.cadore@slu.cuny.edu