2016

12/11/16 — Panelist — The Ongoing Struggle: An Intergenerational Panel on Activism and Movement-Building — The New Inquiry (at Verso Books in Brooklyn).

12/3/16 — Co-Facilitator — Sexual Violence and Organizational Accountability: A Workshop & Strategy Session (Just Practice, Chicago)

12/2/16 — Facilitator — The Power and Pitfalls of Community Accountability in the of Age Social Media (Just Practice, Chicago)

11/30/16 — Panelist — “Ways Forward Panel” at Arresting Survival: Challenging the Survivor Defendant Binary (CUNY Law School)

11/19/16 — Panelist — What Now? Moving Forward for Peace and Justice in Turbulent Times – A Post Election Conversation — Chicago Area Peace Action 37th Annual Dinner Celebration

11/19/16 – Keynote speaker — 15th Annual Teachers for Social Justice Curriculum Fair — Uplift Academy, Chicago.

10/24/16 — Presenter/Facilitator — 2016 National Coalition Against Domestic Violence — No Perfect Victims: Supporting Criminalized Survivors of Violence.

10/21/16 — Keynote speaker — 36th Annual Illinois Art Therapy Association Conference: Intersecting Art Therapy and Social Justice. Creative Resistance – Using Art for Social Change.

10/19/16 — Panelist — White Faces, Black Lives: Race and Reparative Justice in the Era of A Gentler Drug War, Columbia University

10/14/16 — Panelist — Beyond “Criminal Justice Reform”: Conversations on Abolition — 6 pm, New York University (audio here)

10/6/16 — Panelist — #FreeBresha: BMCC Teach-In and Letter Writing Event – Noon to 3 pm — Borough of Manhattan Community College Cafeteria

9/29/16 — Presenter — All the Breshas: Punishing Black Girls in the Age of Mass Criminalization, hosted by Institute for Research in African American Studies (Columbia University) – listen to the lecture here.

9/23/16 — Panelist — The Poetics of Self Determination (at Slought, Philadelphia)

9/20/16 — Panelist — Women, Incarceration and Carceral Feminism: Keynote Panel (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) – (audio here)

9/16/16 — Panelist — Profiles in Abolition: The Hard Road to Abolition// Strategies to Win, hosted by Critical Resistance (The New School, NYC) – (audio here)

8/20/16 — Presenter — Protesting Police Brutality and Racism: Plenary  (American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Seattle WA)

7/29/16 — Panelist — Winning Reparations in Chicago (2016 Soros Justice Fellowships Conference, Phoenix AZ)

7/9/16 — Panelist — Art & Activism (Judson Memorial Church, NYC)

5/22/16 – Panelist — Beyond Bernie: Socialism and Black Liberation (Left Forum NYC)

5/19/16 — Respondent — Black Feminism, the Carceral State and Abolitionism: A Book Talk with Responses from Mariame Kaba and Dayo Gore, UCLA.

5/4/16 —  Presenter at POETRY Springtime Party

4/23/16 — Presenter — Black Leaders Matter, Post­-Show Panel Conversation, Victory Gardens Theater

4/9/16 — Presenter — Mass Incarceration and the School-to-Prison Pipeline The Wire—The Conference (NYC)

4/8/16 – Panelist — Best Practices for Black Girls Black Girl Movement Conference (NYC)

3/19/16 – Panelist — The Art of Intersectionality: Real Rap & Real Work in the Classroom & Community – Discussion organized by Young Chicago Authors at Roosevelt University.

1/31/16 — Moderator — #MakingBlackLivesMatter in Chicago — Panel Discussion at Art In These Times

1/29/16 — Panelist — Feminism in the 21st Century — Women in Public Service Program (WPSP) at the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago

1/27/16 — Facilitator — School to Prison Pipeline 101 — Project SEEEC Teaching Fellows Program at  University of Illinois at Chicago (College of Education)

1/21/16 – Lecture, school to prison pipeline — UnShackledNU – Northwestern University (Evanston)

1/21/16 — Panelist — Creating Change, Policing Institute — Hilton Hotel

1/18/16 — Facilitator — Introduction to the Prison Industrial Complex at Amate House

1/9 /16 – Keynote Lecture — 2015-2016 Model World Conference on Women’s and Girls’ Rights at UIC Gender & Women’s Studies – University of Illinois at Chicago