Notable Speaking Experiences

Keynote Speaking Engagements

What Encanto Teaches Us About Partnering with Parents and Healing Our Inner Child Wounds. Keynote presentation delivered in-person & virtually at the 2024 Oregon State University’s Oregon Parenting Educators Conference.

Applying Adult Attachment to Our Partnerships with Families. Keynote presentation delivered virtually at the 2023 ParentChild+ Professional Development Day.

Transformative Justice and Decolonized Somatic Practice for Queer and Transgender Individuals. Keynote presentation delivered virtually at the 2021 Youth Empowerment Performance Project’s Wellness During the Revolution.

Transformative Justice and Decolonized Somatic Practice. Keynote presentation delivered virtually at the Northwestern University Law’s Black Law Students’ Association.

Featured Speaking Engagements

Power Play: A Play-Based Approach to Equity, Belonging and Leadership. A Pre-Conference Forum Full-Day Facilitation at the 2024 Zero to Three LEARN Conference.

“No Hablemos de Eso” - A Talk about Sexuality and Gender En Nuestras Comunidades. A panel discussion and teach-in at the 2024 La Red Conferencia by La Cocina.

Walking Each Other Home: Holding Hope in the Here and Now, Developing Resilience through Challenging Times. Closing Plenary Facilitation delivered virtually at the 2024 IECMH Technical Assistance Center’s Annual Virtual Grantee Convening, Georgetown University.

The (R)Evolution of Infant and Early Childhood. A panel discussion at the 2024 Professional Development Network (PDN) Meeting, Irving Harris Foundation.

Track 4: Creating Healing Justice-based Leadership and Policies to Further the Well-being of Young Children and Families. A two-day symposium co-facilitation at The Zero to Three LEARN Institute 2023.

Decolonized Mental Health & Embodied Art. A television interview with the Chicago WGN Channel 9.

What Encanto Teaches Us About Partnering with Parents and Healing Our Inner Child Wounds. A conference workshop at the Carole Robertson Learning Center’s Staff Education, Enrichment and Development (SEED) Conference 2023

Community Organizing and Activations

The Parents’ Economic Strategy & Leadership (ESL) Project. A monthly parenting support group integrated with English as a Second Language immersive lessons and job training program for BIPOC immigrant and refugee families at the Chinese Mutual Aid Association.

Family Office Hours. A monthly psychoeducation and political education support for BIPOC immigrant and refugee families at the Chinese Mutual Aid Association.

Conflict Resolution & Inner Child Re-Parenting in Youth Organizing Space. A monthly psychoeducation and political education support for BIPOC youth organizers of the Kuumba Lynx.

Trans Arts & Healing. A trans retreat co-facilitation for the 2023 Trans Day of Visibility in partnership with Life is Work and the Chicago Therapy Collective.

Trans Justice Community Activation for Economic Justice and the passing of HB2542. A 2022 community address and a panel moderator with the Chicago Therapy Collective and elected officials such as Mike Simmons, Kelly Cassidy, and Precious Brady Davis.

Workshop Facilitations

Three Ways Parents Can Practice Social Justice Action & Promote Their Child's Development Simultaneously. A conference workshop presented at the 18th World Association for Infant Mental Health Congress (2023), Dublin, Ireland.

Re-Imagining Parenting to Be Decolonized, Embodied & Intergenerational- The Emergent Strategy Track. A conference workshop facilitated virtually at the 2022 Allied Media Conference.

White Supremacy Blind Spot Buster: Self-Compassion that Links Awareness with Action. Conference workshop co-presented virtually at ZERO TO THREE’s 2021 Virtual Annual Conference.