Calendar & Events Schedule
Here’s what’s coming up.
Want to see me in person? See where I’ll be speaking next.
August 22, 2022
*Registration Information Coming Soon*
Monday June 27
October 2022
*More Information Coming Soon*
Facing History and Ourselves Online Webinar
August 2022
Educolor Summit
Summer Workshop *Please see NYLA to register*
Place: Irvine, California
Date: June 21-24
Place: Birmingham, UK
Date: July 3
Place: Virtual
Date: Nov 6-7
Place: Irvine, CA
Date: December 8
Photo Credit: SXSWEDU
Past keynotes & workshops
Dig through this extensive run of previous bookings that show how I might align with your organization.
- NCTE National Convention speaker – 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
- [Co-panelist] SXSW Edu National Convention Speaker – 2019, 2020
- Heinemann Fellowship 2018-2020
- Presenter – KWELI Journal Annual Convention 2019, 2020
- Presenter – Lesley University Literacy for All 2019
- Presenter – International Literacy Association 2019
- Penguin Randomhouse Middle-School Teacher Advisory Board 2019-2021
- Co-Editor “DisruptTexts” English Journal NCTE 2020-2021
- NCTE Affiliate President – Colorado Language Arts Society (various keynotes and speeches)
- Past President, 2016-Present
- President, 2015-16
- Assistant Online Editor, Statement, 2012-2014
- Keynote speaker -Conference on Educational Leadership 2019 “Literacy for our Collective Liberation: Removing Institutional Barriers for Leaders and Readers”
- Keynote speaker -InnEdCo Annual Convention 2019 “Innovators and Co-creators, Re-imagining Our Roles as Educators”
- Keynote Speaker -The Educator Collaborative Spring Gathering 2020 “Celebrating Black Girlhood”
- Panelist – Al Jazeera English “The Stream”
- Keynote Speaker – Global Tea Shares Spring 2020 “Libraries and Literacy for Liberation: New Strategies and Visions”
- Presenter – Heinemann Webinar “Developing a Critical Consciousness” Spring 2020
- Presenter – PBS Education “Tools for Anti-racist Teaching”
- Keynote Speaker and Presenter – Youth Celebrate Diversity – Annual Convention Spring 2020 “Every Day Is A New Beginning”
- Keynote speaker – North Dakota Librarian’s Association 2021 “We Can’t Make It Until We Make It”
- Keynote speaker – Virginia Association of Teachers of English 2021 “Love is a Verb: Reimagining Literacy Instruction as a Practice of Liberation”
- Keynote speaker – NCTE 2021 Annual Convention
- Co-Presenter – Heinemann Webinar “DisruptTexts in the Classroom” 2021
- Presenter – Heinemann Webinar “Media Literacy for a New Era” 2021