Center for Anti-Violence Education (CAE)

The Center for Anti-Violence Education provides programs that help people build personal safety skills, support young people, and strengthen community responses to harm. Its work includes self-defense education, care and healing practices, gender and social justice initiatives, and community safety and violence prevention. Programs are flexible, trauma-informed, and community-centered, with safety structures developed outside law enforcement. Founded in 1974 as Brooklyn Women's Martial Arts, the organization has equipped women, LGBTQ+ communities, people with disabilities, and survivors of violence with self-defense and self-empowerment tools. CAE serves communities through education and collective approaches to preventing, disrupting, and healing from violence. It is based in Brooklyn, New York.