Selected panels, presentations, workshops, and podcasts
x) “Stewarding Safe Passage in Perilous Times: Memory and Resistance in the Preservation and Growth of Community-Engaged Work” accepted Paper Presentation with Drs. Emily Janke and Erica Wrencher, Imagining America October 2025, Las Cruces, NM.
x) “Remembering Well: Oral Histories as Methodology” accepted Pre-conference Workshop, with Drs. Emily Janke, Erica Wrencher, and Elaine Ward (Merrimack College), Engagement Scholarship Consortium October 2025, Roanoke, VA.
x) “‘They Didn’t Any More Want a Black Junior College Than a Man in the Moon’: The Post-Brown Planning (and Un-Planning) for Segregated Education on the Mississippi Gulf Coast” accepted Paper Presentation, Southern Historical Association November 2025, St. Petersburg, FL.
19) “Finding our Why Among… Everything Else: Exploring What Keeps Community-Engaged Scholars of Color Inspired to Do the Work” Paper Presentation with Dr. Erica Wrencher, Gulf South Summit on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Conference March 2025, Nashville, TN.
18) “Listening to Connect: Introducing Arts and Somatic Practices” Paper Presentation with Drs. Emily Janke and Erica Wrencher, Pathways to Achieving Civic Engagement Conference, NC Campus Engagement February 2025, Guilford Technical and Community College, Colfax, NC
17) “Incorporating Sustainability and Community Engagement across the Sciences” Workshop and Canvas Module, Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program Faculty Workshop, November 2024, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, November 2024, Greensboro, NC.
16) “Incorporating Sustainability across the Sciences” Workshop, Research and Instruction in STEM Education (RISE) Network presentation to interdisciplinary faculty group, November 2024, UNC-Greensboro
15) “Embedding a Course-Based Research Project into an Honors Capstone Course: Our Challenges and Celebrations,” Paper Presentation, Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, both with Dr. Amanda Glass, BCCE Annual Meeting, August 2024, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
14) “Describing Our Why: Public Narrative as Professional Development for Community Boards” Lightning Talk, International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement, with Dr. Erica Wrencher, October 2023, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
13) “Enormous Problems and Empowering Solutions: Cultivating Students’ Skills in the Chemistry Classroom to Influence Public Policy” Innovative Teaching Talk, with Dr. Amanda Glass, Kennesaw State University SoTL Summit, Kennesaw State University, September 2023, Virtual conference
12) “Centering Inclusion and Equity: Workshopping a Rubric for Instructional Design,” Invited co-presenter with Drs. Patti Clayton & Joe Bandy, focused on my and Dr. Amanda Glass’ use of Clayton and Bandy’s rubric in our co-teaching environments, Elon Conference on Engaged Learning, June 2023, Elon University, Elon, NC
11) “The Bubble inside the Bubble: Johnson County Community College,” Invited Lecture, JCCC College Scholars, December 2022, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
10) “Conversations About Bringing Racial and Social Justice into a General Chemistry Classroom at an Open-Access Metropolitan Commuter Community College,” Co-presenter, with Dr. Amanda Glass, Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, August 2022, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
9) “I Don’t Mind a Fight”: Leading Open Access Community Colleges in Closed Communities,” Paper Presentation, Center for the Study of Community Colleges annual meeting, April 2022, Phoenix, AZ
8) “The Bubble Inside the Bubble: Johnson County Community College,” Podcast Guest, Brain Burrito – JCCC Faculty Development Podcast, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
7) “Campuses as Living Archives: Using Campus Histories to Explore Diversity, Equity, & Belonging,” Paper Presentation, Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, October 2022, Virtual Conference
6) “Open Doors and Closed Communities: Creating Community Colleges in White-Flight Towns,” Paper Presentation, History of Education Society (UK), October 2022, Virtual Conference
5) “Having Uncomfortable Conversations During a Pandemic,” Panel Participant, Human Anatomy and Physiology Society Regional Conference, October 2022, Virtual Conference
4) “Sustainability and the Pandemic,” Podcast Guest with Dr. Jay Antle, Brain Burrito – JCCC Faculty Development Podcast, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
4) “What we Talk About when we Talk About how we Talk,” Podcast Guest with Trae Crowder, Drew Morgan, Corey Ryan Forrester, Dartinia Hull, Lolis Eric Elie, Killer Mike, and Jessica Whatley, hosted by Chuck Reece, The Bitter Southerner Podcast, October 2019, Season 2, Episode 1
3) “Position your Student Sustainability Committee as a Leadership Training Opportunity,” Webinar co-presenter with Dr. Jay Antle, Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, October 2018
2) “Student Engagement in Leadership for Sustainability – the Student Sustainability Committee,” Invited Presenter as award winner, Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, October 2016, San Antonio, TX
1) “Internationalizing Community Based Learning and Undergraduate Research,” Paper Presentation, American Association of Environmental Educators, June 2016, American University, Washington, D.C.1) “Internationalizing Community Based Learning and Undergraduate Research,” Paper Presentation, American Association of Environmental Educators, June 2016, American University, Washington, D.C.
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