She has been the Girls Ultimate Movement (GUM) Coordinator for DiscNY since 2016 running clinics for NYC girls. Beyond playing, her true ultimate passion is getting more young people excited about the sport. Since starting her ultimate career, she has competed at UPA/USAU club nationals seven times. Cara played the Mixed division in 20 with XIST and Metro North in 2019. Moving to the Northeast, she joined the newly formed BENT from 2009 to 2016 (serving as captain from 2011 to 2015). with BNOGO from 2004 to 2006 and the first year of Scandal in 2007. Post college, she played in Washington, D.C. Her areas of interest and expertise consists of analyzing and dismantling carceral and colonial logic, building organizational capacity to center community and relationships, and strategizing at the interpersonal level to affect the oppressive institutional and structural systems in place.Ĭara Brown started playing ultimate in 1996 with the open team at Gustavus Adolphus College (MN), and established their first women’s team in 1998. Through Both/And, her current focus has been on educating others on non-colonial youth outreach, with a budding expansion rooted in community care and Transformative Justice principles. She began her journey as an organizer in the New York City ultimate frisbee community - creating policies that advocate for trans, non-binary, and intersex athletes, creation of an access-oriented youth summer camp, hosting equity trainings for the larger community. She currently resides on the occupied land of the Lenape people of the Canarsie tribe, also known as Brooklyn, NY. Her work centers on thinking outside the box constructed by societal -isms and practicing a radical imagination. Khunsa Amin is an anti-racist, anti-colonial facilitator, trainer, educator, and organizer working towards a community-centered and liberatory society. KHUNSA AMIN (SHE/HER/HERS), TEAM EQUITY & OPERATIONS CONSULTANT
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