(photos by Lance Oliver)
- May 2021 – “Anti-Black Racism and Antiracist Pedagogy: History, Theory, and Abolition,” The Graduate Mentoring Center, University of Indiana-Bloomington (virtual)
- April 2021 – “Culturally Responsive & Anti-Racist Teaching: Strategies for Inclusive Excellence for Multi and Mono-lingual Learners,” Northeastern University, Graduate School of Engineering (virtual).
- March 2021 – “DEI and Anti-Racist Consortial Cooperation: Transform Challenge into Success,” Five Colleges of Ohio panel organizer and co-presenter, Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), Virtual Conference on Diversity, Equity, and Student Success.
- January 2021 – “Equity and Inclusion in Online Learning Spaces: Moving from “Tech-Focus” to Anti-Racist Practice,” Co-presenter, AAC&U 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting.
- September 2020 -“Multilingual Learners: Innovative Strategies in Teaching for Inclusive Excellence,” Northeastern University, Graduate School of Engineering (virtual).
- January 2020 – “Walk the Talk: A Cross-Divisional Approach to Institutionalizing Diversity at The College of Wooster,” ACAD Annual Meeting, AAC&U, Washington, D.C.
- March 2019 – “First, You Must Envision It: Visualization and the Power of Change,” Keynote Speaker, Provost and Academic Affairs Assistants in Higher Education National Association, Philadelphia, PA.
- “The Demographics of Change: Diversity and the Challenge of Today in Higher Education,” Diversity Workshop Facilitator, Provost and Academic Affairs Assistants in Higher Education National Association (PA3HENA), Philadelphia, PA.
- May 2017 – Baccalaureate Speaker, “The Poetics of Failure,” chosen by the senior class, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, May 2017.
- May 2017 – “The Future of Higher Education and Life-Long Learning,” Harvard/Radcliffe Class of 1982 35th Reunion, Cambridge, MA.
- April 2016 – Keynote Speaker, “Somos El Futuro/We Are The Future: Latinxs in the 21st Century,” Summit of Ohio Latinx: Voices Unidas, Denison University, Granville, OH.
- February 2016 – Council for Social Justice and Diversity Symposium, Kenyon College, Gambier OH.
- October 2015 – Panelist, “Beyond New Journalism: A Conversation About Journalism and Literary Non-Fiction Now and in the Future.” With Robin Davis, Lewis Hyde, and Roger Rosenblatt. Kenyon Review Literary Festival, Kenyon College, OH.
- February 2014 – Panelist, “Historia Ficción o Ficción Histórica en La séptima vida de Juan M. García Passalacqua” (“Historical Fiction or Fictionalized History in The Seventh Life by Juan M. García Passalacqua”), Universidad del Turabo, Puerto Rico.
- June 2012 – Presenter, “Seminar in Postcolonial Studies,” Universidad del Turabo, Puerto Rico.
- March 2012 – Guest speaker, “Haunted by Cuba: The American Colonial Gothic in Sophia Peabody’s ‘Cuba Journal’ and Martin R. Delany’s Blake, or The Huts of America,” Latino and Latin American Space for Enrichment and Research (LASER), The Ohio State University.
- February 2012 – Guest speaker, Re-dedication of the García-Passalacqua/Acosta Reading Room, Universidad del Turabo, Puerto Rico.
- Guest speaker, “Postcolonial Studies,” María Reina Academy, Puerto Rico.
- 2011 – Keynote speaker, Festival Latino, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Mount Vernon, Ohio.
- 2010 – Panelist, “Mythbusters: Immigration Edition,” Panel on Immigration Myths, Kenyon College and Mount Vernon Nazarene University.
- 2010- Guest speaker, “Teaching at a Small Liberal Arts College,” Department of English, The Ohio State University.
- 2010 – Panelist, 2010 Annual GLCA Conference for Academic Administrative Assistants, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH.