CONFERENCE + PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
HBCU Executive Media Training Institute. Presenter. “What’s Canada Got That We Don’t.” Washington, D.C. July 14, 2017.
Andrew Jackson's Hermitage. Keynote. "What Juneteenth Means on a President's Plantation." Hermitage, Tennessee. June 18, 2017.
Bishop Michael Eldon School. Keynote. Freeport, Bahamas. June 14, 2017.
University of The Bahamas, Northern Campus. Commencement Speaker. Freeport, Bahamas. June 1, 2017.
SXSWedu. Panelist. Austin, Texas. March 6, 2017.
Fort Negley: A Symbol of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Nashville. Panelist. Nashville, Tennessee. October 18, 2016. Bobby Lovett, Reavis Mitchell + Daniel Sharfstein.
The Tennessee Historical Society, the Fort Negley Visitors Center and Park, and the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University sponsored a half-day program entitled “Fort Negley: A Symbol of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Nashville” The program educated residents of Middle Tennessee about the history of the fort and the role the site played in the history of the Nashville Civil Rights Movement.
HBCUstory Symposium IX. Convenor. Dallas, Texas. October 31 + November 1, 2016.
Sought and secured partnership with Paul Quinn College; secured keynote speaker Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie; secured sponsorships; organized meeting of scholarly research and case studies outlining the historic and contemporary value of historically black colleges and universities; featuring 30+ presenters, including United Negro College Fund, Southern Education Foundation, and Honda Campus All-Star Challenge.
MTSU Center for Historic Preservation. Speaker. “Reconstruction: A Moment in the Sun.” Screening and Q+A Murfreesboro, Tennessee. October 18, 2016.
Vanderbilt University. U.S. and Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movements Past & Present: People, Politics, Music, and Memory. Speaker. Nashville, Tennessee. May 17, 2016.
New Black School. Panelist. "Black Lives Matter 101: A Comprehensive Course on Black Social Movements." Charlene Carruthers, umi selah + Mychal Denzel Smith (moderator). New York, New York. April 29, 2016.
Western Kentucky University Department of History. Speaker. Bowling Green, Kentucky. April 28, 2016.
Tea Time for Education. Speaker. Washington, D.C. April 17, 2016.
Builders Mutual Insurance Company. Speaker. “Why HBCUs and Black History Month Matters, And Always Will.” Raleigh, North Carolina. February 26, 2016.
Florida Memorial University + Club 1964's Inaugural HBCU Symposium. Keynote. "Stony the Road We've Trod—The Perilous Place of HBCUs in the Age of Obama and Anti-black Respectability." Miami Gardens, Florida. February 12, 2016.
Alcorn State University Social Justice Forum. Speaker. “Black Lives Matter as Reconstructed Resistance: HBCUs, Social Justice, and Why Our Degrees Won’t Save Us.” Lorman, Mississippi. October 21, 2015.