Details: Teaching
I use public speaking and workshop design as forms of cultural engagement—bridging art, equity, and education. I’ve collaborated with universities, museums, and grassroots organizations to spark civic dialogue through creative practice.
Workshops: Cultural Literacy, Media, and Social Justice
National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance Conference (Washington D.C.) — What Does Class Have to Do With It? A Conversation on Class, Economic Justice and Giving (Jul 2012)
Creating Balance in an Unjust World: Conference on Math Education and Social Justice (Brooklyn, NY) — Movie Math: Using Social Justice Media in the Classroom (Apr 2008)
H2O Hip Hop Odyssey International Film Festival (NYC) — How to Curate a Film Series. For the Youth Programming Committee at H20 (part of H2Ed: A Hip-Hop Educational Program) (Sep 2004)
(Various Locations) — How to Organize Community Screening and Discussion Events (2008 - 2004)
— Bioneers Annual Conference: Reel Change Agents Fellowship Program (San Rafael, CA)
— Brotherhood/Sister Sol: Education for Liberation Network
— Chinese American Planning Council
— Esperanza del Barrio: Mexican Youth Conference
— Hunter College of Social Work: Popular Education Conference
— Manhattan Neighborhood Network: Youth Channel
— Millennium High School: Teen Volunteer Awareness Day
— Native American Film & Video Festival at Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
— Neighborhood Defenders Service of Harlem: STAR Program
— New York City Outward Bound Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School
— Project Reach: Social Justice Bootcamp (Fleishmans, NY)
— Reel Works Teen Filmmaking (Brooklyn, NY)
— Rutgers University: Douglass College (Human Rights House) (New Brunswick, NJ)
— United Puerto Rican Organization of Sunset Park (Brooklyn, NY)
— WNET (PBS Channel 13): Celebration Teaching and Learning Conference
— Youth Venture
Educational Resources
Co-produced 45 film discussion guides for American Documentary | P.O.V. For more info, see here.
Invited Talks: Academic & Community Education
Climate Film Festival (NYC) — Introduced screening of Landback: Doc Shorts (Sep 2025)
Texas State University (Online) — Paper Tigers and Model Minorities (RDG 1300: Reading Improvement) (Feb 2022)
— What Is Indigenous Peoples Day? (English 1310: College Writing I) (Nov 2020)
Confronting July 4th: A March to Honor Black + Indigenous Activists (Brooklyn, NY) — Anti-Blackness in Pan-Indigenous Filipinx Communities (Jul 2020)
Barnard College (NYC) — Reproductive Justice for Native American Peoples (Women and Health) (Dec 2019)
WEIRDD Poetry Series (NYC) — How is the Study and Collecting of Indigenous Art Evolving? (Sep 2018)
New School for Public Engagement (NYC) — What Can Public Media Achieve? (Applications of Media Management Theory) (Sep 2015)
Whitney Museum of American Art, Youth Insights Program Reunion (NYC) — Keynote Address: What I Learned from American Art (Jan 2003)
Artist Talks & Panels: Youth-Produced Media
Educational Video Center
— Panel: It’s Not About Grit: Trauma, Inequity, and the Power of Transformative Teaching (Spring 2018)
— Talk: Making the Transition from Youth Media to PBS: Public Television (2007)
City-As-School High School — Talk: Catch-up with an Alum (2007)
Cooper Union School of Art, High School Outreach Pre-College Art Program — Talk: Painting and Filmmaking Have a Lot in Common (2007)
New York International Latino Film Festival — Youth Reclaiming the Media (2006)
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women — Youth Changing Culture at the International Federation of Social Workers Conference (2005)
Columbia University, The Photography Institute — Talk: Youth Media For Social Change (2004)
Yale University, Student Union— Panel: Queer Asian & Pacific Islander Experiences (2001)
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts — Talk: What Youth-Produced Media Can Achieve (2000 and 1998)
Bard College, Artist Student Club — Talk: Why Combine Art with Social Justice? (1999)