Presentations

PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS

Visiting Artist/Facilitator                                                              August 2020
Regis University, Mile-High MFA in Creative Writing (Denver, CO)

  • Created and facilitated online workshop utilizing Theatre of the Oppressed exercises where participants embody their oppression and empowerment as inspiration for writing

Visiting Artist/Facilitator                                                              July 2020
University of Illinois - Chicago, School of Public Health Pre-Matriculation Program (Chicago, IL)

  • Created thirty-minute instructional video analyzing power, privilege, oppression, and public health, including excerpts from a community workshop

Visiting Artist/Facilitator                                                              January 2019
St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY)

  • Created and facilitated multi-day Student Leadership Training Program for undergraduate student leaders utilizing student-written narratives of microaggressions and oppression

Visiting Artist/Facilitator                                                              November 2018
University of Illinois - Chicago – Latino Cultural Center (Chicago, IL)

  • Created and facilitated public workshop for graduate and undergraduate students “Crafting Creative Responses to Hate Speech"

Visiting Artist/Facilitator                                                              June 2018
Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO)

  • Created and facilitated graduate level in-class workshop on issues of internalized oppression

Visiting Artist/Facilitator                                                              May 2018
University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)

  • Created and facilitated public workshop using newspaper articles “Theatre & Protest”

Workshop Facilitator                                                                      January 2018
Naropa University (Boulder, CO)

  • Created and facilitated workshop required for all incoming undergraduate students, for spring orientation “Sacred Space of Learning”

Visiting Artist/Facilitator                                                              December 2017
Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO)

  • Created and facilitated graduate level in-class workshop on issues of internalized oppression

Visiting Artist/Facilitator                                                              November 2017
University of Illinois - Chicago – Latino Cultural Center (Chicago, IL)

  • Created and facilitated public workshop for graduate and undergraduate students “Unpacking the im/migrant journey”

Workshop Facilitator                                                                     November 2017
Naropa University (Boulder, CO)

  • Created and facilitated workshop for graduate and undergraduate students “Feeling into Class Bias”

Presenter/Facilitator                                                                     October 2017
The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Conference – University of California, Berkeley

  • Paper: Embodying Power, Oppression, & Intersectionality. Panel: Disobedient Poetics: Poetry against Fascism.

Workshop Facilitator                                                                     September 2017
Naropa University (Boulder, CO)

  • Created and facilitated workshop for graduate and undergraduate students “Embodying Identity & Intersectionality”

Workshop Facilitator                                                                     August 2017
Naropa University (Boulder, CO)

  • Created and facilitated workshop required for all incoming undergraduate students, for fall orientation “Sacred Space of Learning”

Workshop Facilitator                                                                     July 2017
Body-Mind Centering Association Conference 2017 (Texas State University - San Marcos, TX)

  • Created and facilitated workshop on endocrine system “Performance Power Practice”

Visiting Artist/Facilitator                                                              January 2017
University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)

  • Created and facilitated public workshop using newspaper articles “Theatre & Protest”

Workshop Facilitator                                                                     June 2013
19th Annual Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Conference (University of Miami, OH)                   

  • Co-creator and co-facilitator of three hour workshop “Breaking the Educational Machine"