Presentations

2025

Soon Will Last: Task Selection as Response | University of Iowa School of Information Science “Professional Growth Through Personal Engagement” Series

Newbery Medal Books: 100 Years of Prizewinning Children’s Literature | New College of Florida Faculty & Alumni Academic Showcase
As You Like It: Black Labor, White Comfort, & DEI Theater | Built to Exclude: Confronting Issues of Equity and Otherness in Libraries, LACUNY Institute
BIPOC Youth Literature Scholars’ Wellbeing in Research Practice | Researchers Exploring Inclusivity in Youth Literature (REIYL-Lite) Conference
Banned & Challenged Books Roundtable | Children’s Literature Association

Black Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror & Black Librarianship | FIYAHCON
Theatrics and Misdirection: DEI in Academic Libraries (Keynote) | Oberlin DEI & Anti-Racism Committee Program
Confronting the Myth of Neutrality: Academic Libraries, Advocacy, and Free Speech | ALA Annual Conference (ACRL ULS/ANSS/PPIRS)
Librarians in Conversation | Let’s Talk About Sex in YA Conference
Hiring for Diversity? | Pratt School of Information Science “Breaking Barriers” Series
Right Back Where We Started From or Where We Go From Here | Elements of Empowerment Conference

Systemic Racism in Libraries: How We Got Here and What We Can Do | San Francisco Public Library Racial Equity Committee REALTalk Series
I‘m Still Speaking: Amplifying the Black Experience in Librarianship | Augusta Baker Fall Forum
Children’s Literature and Anti-Racism: Breaking Open the Limits of the White Imagination | Striving Towards Anti-racist Research in Youth Literature (STARYL) Resistance Series
Diversity, Language, and EDI in Libraries | Pacific Library Partnership: The Future of Libraries
“The Diversity Problem”: Language, Power, and Systemic Change in LIS | Augusta Baker Diversity Lecture Series, University of South Carolina

Diverse and Inclusive Literature: Evaluation, Cultural Competencies, Collection Development, & Programming | ALA Annual Conference
Call and Response: Constructed Identity and the Legible Experience in Danticat’s YA Novels | Reconsidering Audience, American Literature Association
Making Things Up in the Academic Library | Defeating the Bullies and Trolls in the Library Symposium, Skokie, IL
Mindful Leadership: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Academic Library | ACRL Instruction Section Management & Leadership Committee webinar

Bullying, Trolling, & Doxxing, Oh My! Protecting Our Advocacy and Public Discourse Around Social Justice | ALA Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA
The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winners Through an Academic Lens | Association of Jewish Libraries Conference, Boston, MA
Engaging in Critical Librarianship | Tufts University Libraries Staff Development Day, Cambridge, MA
Eliminating Racism in the Workplace | Fenway Health Racial Justice & Equity Collaborative, Boston, MA
Ally is a Verb: Anti-Oppression and Systems-Thinking in Libraries | Northeast Ohio Regional Library System Critical Conversations, Cleveland, OH

Our Monsters, Ourselves: Anxiety, (Child) Monstrosity, and the Child-As-Future | Imagined Futures, Children’s Literature Association, Tampa, FL
Book Reviews: The Diversity of Race, Ethnicity, and Sexual Orientation | BookExpo America, New York City
Unpacking Silence: The Anti-Oppression Roadshow | Dangerous Librarianship, Urban Librarians Conference, Brooklyn, NY
Let’s Get Critical: Reflective Teaching Practice in Social Sciences Librarianship Workshop | Social Sciences Librarians Boot Camp, Cambridge, MA

Animated Abjection: Power, Performance, and the Authority of Victim | Animation, Children’s Literature Association, Columbus, OH
Advancing Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity | New England Library Instruction Group, Worcester, MA