speaking

I have designed multiple presentations and workshops about Are you really my friend? tailored for the audience. I love talking to photography, professional development, sociology and writing classes. I also enjoy talking to business about ways to use active listening and story telling to build stronger connections in the workplace.

2023

• Lecture, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA

 2018

• Workshop, Building Connections, Women’s Leadership Conference, Las Vegas, NV

• Lecture & Screening with Robin Greenspun, Hampshire College Alumni Reel, Laemmle's Monica Film Center, Santa Monica, CA

• Lecture, Siri Kaur’s Photography Class, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

 2017

• Lecture & Screening with Robin Greenspun, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA

• Lecture & Screening with Robin Greenspun, Las Vegas Film Festival, Las Vegas, NV

• Lecture & Screening with Robin Greenspun, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

• Lecture & Screening with Robin Greenspun, Maine International Film Festival, Waterville, ME

 2016

• Workshops, English, Journalism & Art Classes, The Williston Northampton School, Easthampton, Massachusetts

• Lecture with Jeff Sharlet, Siri Kaur’s Photography & Book Class, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

• Panel, www2016, Montreal, Canada

2015

• One week intensive workshop team taught with Jeff Sharlet, Hampshire College Creative Media Institute, Instagram Essays and Using Social Media as a Tool to Tell Stories, Amherst, Massachusetts

• Game Changer Keynote Speaker, Global Privacy Summit 2015, Washington, DC

• Lectures, "New Media Theory" + "Art Graduate Colloquium" classes, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

2014

• Lecture, Aimée Bessire's Contemporary Art class, Bates College, Lewiston, ME

• Lecture, Social Computing Group, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA

• Lecture, German American Institute, Tübingen, Germany

• Lecture, Carl-Schurz-Haus / Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Freiburg, Germany

• Lecture with Nate Larson, Kate Palmer Alber's Social Media + Photography graduate seminar, School of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

• Lecture, Siri Kaur’s Photography Class, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

• Lecture, Keliy Anderson-Staley's Junior block photography, University of Houston, Houston, TX

• Lecture, School of Art's Photography and Digital Media and Art History Departments, University of Houston, Houston, TX

• Panel with Dan Fletcher, "Taking Risks for Great Social Storytelling," SXSW, Austin, T

2013

• Lecture,DEMANIO MARITTIMO KM.278, Marzocca, Ancona, Italy

• Social Media Panel discussion, DEMANIO MARITTIMO KM.278, Marzocca, Ancona, Italy

• Lecture, Facebook Headquarters, Menlo Park, CA

• Lecture, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR

• Lecture, Siri Kaur’s Photography Class, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

• Lecture, Film Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV

• Lecture, Department of Communication, School of Information Resources and Library Science, Catherine Brook's Social Media and Ourselves class, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

• Lecture, School of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

• Lecture, Department of Communication & Journalism, University of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM

• Lecture, Department of Art, Webster University, Webster Groves, MO

• Lecture, University of Central Missouri Gallery of Art + Design, Warrensburg, MO

• Lecture with Marni Shindleman, Social Media Listening Center + Digital Production Arts, Clemson Univeristy, Clemson, SC

• Lecture, Dawn Robinson's Social psychology class, Sociology Department, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

• Lecture, Marni Shindleman's Professional practice class + Kelly Jones' Color photography class, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

• Lectures, North Carolina State University - Art+ Design College, Design Thinking Seminar, Raleigh, NC

• Lecture, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC - CANCELLED due to weather

2012

• Lecture, Art Center College of Design, Jona Frank's Portrait and Identity class, Pasadena, CA

• Lecture, Siri Kaur’s Photography Class, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

• TEDxdirigo VILLAGES at Bates College, Lewiston, ME

• Lecture, University of New England, sponsored by the Sociology Dept. Office of Citizenship and the Department of Art & Communications, Biddeford, Maine

• Lecture, Nate Larson's "Contemporary Directions" class, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

• Panel discussion with Jessica Vitak & Nathan Jurgenson, Honors Humanities program, University of Maryland, "Humans 2.0",College Park, MD

• Lecture, Digital Cultures and Creativity program, University of Maryland,College Park, MD

• Lecture, Photography club, Deering High School, Portland, ME

• Lecture, Cross-Cultural Rhetoric BA writing class with Paula Harrington,Colby College, Waterville ME

• Lecture, PhD/MFA art history students,Contemporary Arts Workshop, University of Chicago

• Lecture, photography class with Laura Letinsky, University of Chicago

• Discussion with PMA director, Mark Bessire & gallery owner Joseph Carroll,Portland Museum of Art

• Discussion with Meggan Gould's BA Bowdoin College photography students, Portland Museum of Art

• Professional development lecture & crits, Susan Belton's BFA&MFA students,School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

• Social Media and Events, Social Media Breakfast Maine, Portland, ME