Speaking Engagement and Events
2026
+ Workshop Leader and Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A and “Understanding Conservatism Workshop”, The Action Lab New York, NY
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, New York, NY Roosevelt House Hunter College
+ Speaker– New York University class
2025
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Palm Springs, CA
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, Violet Crown, Santa Fe, NM
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, Salem Film Fest Salem, MA
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, Scribe Video Center, Philadelphia, PA
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, New York Creative Time Headquarters
+ Workshop Leader–“Surveillance Party”: Security and Safety for Artists in These Times, New York Creative Time Headquarters
+ Keynote–“Understanding Conservatism” Workshop, New York Creative Time Headquarters
+ Workshop Leader, Race Forward/The Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE)
+ Moderator–22nd Century Conference, Atlanta, GA
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, 22nd Century Conference, Atlanta, GA
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, Activists Mobilizing for Power–Western States Center Conference, Portland, OR
+ Keynote–Homegrown Screening + Discussion, PolicyLink, Sa Francisco, CA
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, Eastside Arts Alliance, San Francisco, CA
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, Filmfest DC Washington, DC
2024
+ Speaker–Earth Week Film Festival at San Francisco State University
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, 81st Venice International Film Festival, Venice Critics Week Competition Venice, Italy
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, Camden International Film Festival Camden, Maine
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, Filmfest Hamburg Hamburg, Germany
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, Zurich Film Festival Zurich, Switzerland
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, Hamptons International Film Festival East Hampton, NY
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, New/Next Film Festival Baltimore, MD
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, Hawaiʻi International Film Festival Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, Mill Valley Film Festival Mill Valley and Berkeley, CA
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, Santa Fe International Film Festival (SFiFF) Santa Fe, NM
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, Montclair Film Festival Montclair, NJ
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, Film Fesival Cologne Cologne, Germany
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, Denver Film Fest Denver, CO
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival & Symposium Washington, DC
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, ZINEBI – Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Film Bilbao, Spain
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, Stockholm International Film Festival Stockholm, Sweden
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, DOC NYC New York, NY
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, Los Angeles 2220 Arts + Archives
+ Speaker–Homegrown Screening + Q&A, New York City DCTV's Firehouse Cinema
2023
+ Workshop Leader–22nd Century Conference, Minneapolis, MN
+ Workshop Facilitator–Small Town Summit, Missoula, MT
2021
+ Co-Host and Moderator of Storytelling in Crisis, Community Dialogue. Watch the Recording.
2020
+ Panelist–Exposure Labs and #EarthDayWatchParty, “Using film to drive climate action in a time of social distancing”
+ Moderator–#StayHomeWatchTogether Earth Day Water Warriors Q&A
+ Keynote Speaker–Columbia University, “The Stories that Rise”
2019
+ Presenter–Columbia University, “The Role of Narrative in the Natural Sciences and Humanities”
+ Mentor–Black Public Media
+ Presenter–Leuphana University
+ Presenter–Fight C Prince George
+ Presenter–Creative Capital
2018
+ Keynote Speaker–Seeds of Peace “Gather”
+ Workshop Leader–Seeds of Peace “Gather”
+ Presenter–New York University
+ Presenter–International Center of Photography
+ Panelist–Allied Media Conference, "Double Feature & Panel"
+ Panelist–Allied Media Conference, "StoryShift: Amplify, Resource & Support Accountable Storytelling"
+ Panelist–Allied Media Conference, "Whose Story Is It? De-colonizing Documentary Practice"
+ Panelist–DOC NYC Pro's Distribution Boot Camp, "Secrets of Self-Distribution"
+ Panelist–Facing Race
+ Presenter–Good Pitch Local, Dallas, TX
+ Presenter–Wesleyan University
+ Presenter–Ohio State University
+ Presenter–Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
+ Presenter–Fossil Free Fest
+ Presenter–San Francisco Green Film Festival
+ Presenter–Lumbee Film Festival
+ Facilitator–Tribeca Film Festival, "Diversity on Whose Terms?"
+ Facilitator–Advancing Justice Conference, "In the Streets, On the Screen: Documentaries for Social Justice"
+ Presenter–Real Art Ways
+ Presenter–The Queens Museum
+ Panelist–The Reach Gallery
2017
+ Panelist, Citizen Artist Salon
+ Workshop Leader, Laundromat Project
+ Workshop Leader, Magnum Foundation
+ Presenter–Sane Energy Project, "Displaced; A Conversation on Climate Chaos, Refugee Crisis and Immigration"
+ Panelist–Tribeca Film Festival
+ Panelist–Patois Human Rights Film Festival
+ Presenter–Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
+ Presenter–New York University, Arts Politics
+ Presenter–School of Visual Arts
+ Workshop Leader–Citizen Engagement Lab, Water Warriors Strategy Summit
+ Panelist–NYU Wagner School, "Arts, Public Narrative, and Storytelling for Social Justice"
+ Workshop Leader–#GetOrganizedBK, "Storytelling for Activists Using Film and Other Mediums"
+ Panelist–Firelight Lab
+ Presenter–NAMAC Hatch Lab, Philadelphia
+ Presenter–People vs. Oil and Gas Summit
+ Panelist–Blackstar Film Festival, "Who Gets to Tell Which Stories? On Cultural Appropriation"
+ Presenter–Swale and Eco Practicum
+ Panelist–Elsipogtog First Nation
+ Presenter–Cry You One Community Salon
2016
+ Keynote Presenter–JustFilms, "Visual Storytelling and Strategy Workshop"
+ Keynote Presenter– Images of Voices and Hope's Restorative Narrative Colloquium and Retreat
+ Keynote Presenter–National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture's Alliance 2016 (Watch it here)
+ Workshop Leader–Laundromat Project, Workshop on Community Partnerships
+ Presenter–Hunter College, Arts, Culture and Public Policy Class
+ Presenter–New York University–Participatory Action Research class
+ Presenter–The Post Environmental Center
+ Workshop Leader–Newspace Center for Photography, "Visual Storytelling as Activist Strategy"
+ Presenter–United World College Annual Conference: Climate Change & Energy Innovation
2015
+ Presenter–NYU Media and Environment Class
+ Presenter–The New School, Governing Emergencies Network
+ Presenter–US Departments of Arts and Culture, "#IMAGINING: Creative Strategies to Fight Gentrification in NYC"
+ Panelist–The Foundry Theatre, "Reimagining our Communities"
+ Presenter–What is Journalism? Exploring the Past, Present and Future Conference, "An Evening with Community-Based Storytellers"
+ Presenter–Hunter College, Arts, Culture and Public Policy Class
+ Workshop Leader–Laundromat Project, Workshop on Community Partnerships
+ Presenter–International Center of Photography, "Telling Stories Differently: Activism and Engagement in the Age of New Media"
+ Presenter–Firelight Media Producer’s Lab Retreat, “Storytelling In A Digital World”
2014
+ Presenter–Doc NYC, "Shorter Forms for Ever Shorter Attention Spans"
+ Presenter–Creative Change NYC: Arts, Culture & Economic Justice Strategy Session
+ Presenter–Camden Film Festival, "Doc/Tech"
+ Presenter–Creative Change Retreat, “Sharing Our Stories: Arts & Activism”
+ Workshop Leader–Sandy Storyline Writing Workshop at New York Public Library in New Dorp Staten Island
+ Presenter–Magnum Foundation and Paley Center for Media, “ Creative Innovation and Digital Community: Art & Media on the Brink of Change”
+ Panelist–Mayor’s Office Talking Transition,” From the Edge of Disaster: How Activists and Insiders Can Use the Lessons of Hurricane Sandy to Make the City Safer”
+ Presenter–NJ News Commons, Innovating the Local News Ecosystem National Conference
+ Panelist–Office of Emergency Management, NYC Citizen Corps and NY Writers Coalition, “Finding a Voice: Storytelling After a Disaster”
+ Presenter–Chicken and Egg Reproductive Justice Gathering
+ Presenter and Workshop Leader–US Forest Service, “Urban Natures Workshop: Engaging Social Science Perspectives from Emerging Scholars”
+ Presenter–Tribeca Film Institute, Department of Education and Moving Image Blueprint, Conference for media educators
+ Presenter–CommonBound: Moving Towards a New Economy Conference
+ Presenter–Reboot Stories, “Learn Do Share Lab”
+ Workshop Leader–Sandy Storyline Writing Workshop in partnership with Rockaway Wildfire, Far Rockaway
+ Presenter and Workshop Leader–Storycode DC
+ Workshop Leader–Laundromat Project, Workshop on Community Partnerships
+ Presenter–Filipino Narratives on Uncertainty and Climate Change
2013
+ Panelist–TFI Interactive, Storyscapes: Creating Immersive Story Experiences
+ Panelist–Municipal Art Society, “Charting the Road to Resilience: From the Ground Up”
+ Panelist–Downtown Community Television, “Sandy Witness”
+ Panelist–Rosa Luxemburg Stifung, “Teach Radical”
+ Presenter–Brooklyn Historical Society, “Sandy, One Year Later: Sharing and Preserving Brooklyn’s Stories”
+ Organizer and Presenter–BRIC House, “Looking Back, Looking Forward: Life After Hurricane Sandy”
+ Keynote Presenter–Hunter College, Lecture for “Media in a Digital Age”
+ Keynote Presenter–Montclair State University, Colloquium
+ Panelist–Brooklyn Arts Council, “Documenting Sandy”
+ Presenter and PanelistCreative Time Summit, “My Brooklyn”
+ Panelist–#NYTechResponds, Relief Agency Conference
+ Presenter–NOCD-NY Citywide Forum
+ Presenter–Regarding Humanity Salon "Storytelling: Who Does it Well?"