Details: Teaching

Workshops: Various

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 at Long Island University (Apr 2008)

H2O Hip Hop Odyssey International Film Festival (NYC) — How to Curate a Film Series for the Youth Programming Committee (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

Teaching Documents

Co-produced 45 film discussion guides for American Documentary | P.O.V. For more info, see here.

Invited Talks: Academic & Community Education

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 University, Tisch School of the Arts — Talk: What Youth-Produced Media Can Achieve (2000 and 1998)

Columbia University, The Photography Institute — Talk: Youth Media For Social Change (2004)

Yale University, Student Union— Panel: Queer Asian & Pacific Islander Experiences (2001)

Bard College, Artist Student Club — Talk: Why Combine Art with Social Justice? (1999)