Speaking engagements
Through workshops and public talks, I share practices and frameworks for design justice, co-design, service design, youth-centered healing, art for social change, and building collective power.
See my past and upcoming engagements below.
June 2025 – Cambridge, MASpeaker: Youth-Led Art and Healing Justice
MIT Media Lab Lifelong Kindergarten Group
May 30, 2025 – Washington DC Workshop: Service standards for a more accessible and responsive local government
Code for America Summit Demo Lab
January 2024 – Virtual from Philadelphia, PACo-Presenter: Building Trust and Collaborating with Communities in the City of Philadelphia
Service Design in Government
November 2023 – Virtual from Philadelphia, PA and Washington, DC Co-Speaker: Building Trust and Collaborating with Communities in the City of Philadelphia
Georgetown University Beeck Center Social Impact + Innovation Digital Service Network Virtual Event
October 2023 – Virtual from Philadelphia, PACo-Speaker: International Smart & Healthy Cities Symposium on Enhancing Cities in Equitable Ways
Institute for Smart & Healthy Cities at Thomas Jefferson University
June 2023 – Brooklyn, NYSpeaker: Healing-centered art and design: a practice for personal and collective transformation
HASTAC Critical Making & Social Justice at Pratt University
March 2023 – Virtual from Lexington, KY and Philadelphia, PAPanelist: Visual Practices and Experimental Geographies
University of Kentucky Cooperative for the Humanities and Social Sciences
March 2023 – Virtual from Philadelphia, PA
Panelist, The Panelist: Dogma of Individualism panel moderated by Alba Villamil
HmntyCntrd, Critical UX: Challenging the Dogma of UX
November 2022 – Philadelphia, PA
Guest lecture: Course on Feminism and the Internet by Prof. Jessa Lingel
University of Pennsylvania: Annenberg School for Communication
October 2022 – Virtual from Philadelphia, PA
Co-Speaker: The Equitable Community Engagement Toolkit: Towards a Shared Vision and Practice
Design Philadelphia Festival
April 2022 – New York, NY
Guest lecture: Course on CD Methods and Practices by Prof. Kimberly Gim
Parsons School of Design MPS Communication Design
May 2022 – Philadelphia, PA
Speaker: Designing Equitable Programs Lunch & Learn
The Nonprofit Center
January 2022 – Virtual from Toronto, ON and Philadelphia, PA
Speaker: Shaping Change: Gifts of Uncertainty
DesignTO Symposium: No Such Thing as Normal
January 2022 – Virtual from New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA
Panel Moderator: Making a Seat at the Table with Katie Lee and Lynn Kiang
AIGA NY with Dome
June 2021 – Virtual from San Francisco, CA and Philadelphia, PA
Co-Speaker: Building a Practice of Equity-Centered Design with the PHL Service Design Studio
Code for America Summit
April 2021 – Baltimore, MA and Philadelphia, PA
Panelist: Design Justice - Building New Futures at the Intersection of Design + Social Justice
Maryland Institute College of Art Mixed Media Speakers series
February 2021 – Virtual from Baltimore, MD and Philadelphia, PA
Co-Speaker: Design for Breakfast featuring the Service Design Studio
Baltimore City Mayor’s Office of Performance & Innovation
November 2020 – Virtual from Athena, GA and Philadelphia, PA
Co-Speaker: On Staying Together - A Collective Art and Design Practice in Pursuit of Healing Justice with Creative Resilience Collective
University of Georgia Athens
October 2020 – Virtual from Philadelphia, PA
Co-Speaker: Service Design in Government: For the people, by the people
Design Philadelphia Festival
November 2019 – New York, NY
Workshop Co-Facilitator: Creative Resilience Collective as a form of speculative design
Columbia University: Synapsis Journal
April 2019 – Philadelphia, PA
Co-Panelist: Practices in Collective Care with Creative Resilience Collective facilitated and curated by Theo Loftis featuring Andrea Ngan, Li Sumpter, and LaTreice Branson
Common Field 2019 Convening – Report from the Field
April 2019 – Philadelphia, PAGuest lecture: Sébastien Derenoncourt’s course on Art of the Web
University of Pennsylvania: Weitzman School of Design
April 2019 – Columbus, OHCo-Speaker: Spatial Literacy and Sustainable Social Practices, organized by James A. Enos
Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) Conference
November 2018 – Philadelphia, PA
Guest lecturer: Course on Ghost in the Machine by Prof. Timothy Belknap
Temple University’s Tyler School of Art