PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS
Facilitator June 2023
Diversity Workshop, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, facilitated workshop for PhD students and postdocs in the Department of Economics, utilizing anonymously submitted student-written narratives of microaggressions and oppression.
Facilitator July 2023
Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) Summer Institute at University of California – Davis, facilitated Pre-Conference Creative Writing Workshop, utilizing mindfulness and Theatre of the Oppressed for inspiration.
Visiting Artist October 2022
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, created and facilitated graduate level in-class workshop for Counseling students on issues of systemic oppression.
Co-facilitator January 2022
National Day of Racial Healing, Santa Clara County, CA, co-created and facilitated public online healing circle with other volunteer professionals and county officials.
Co-Facilitator October 2020
National Latinx Writers Gathering sponsored by National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM, co-created and co-facilitated online workshop with J. Michael Martinez connecting Theatre of the Oppressed techniques with poetry techniques, “Writing and Sensing through Oppression.”
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"