Speaking, Workshops, and Community Engagement Work

Co-Principal Investigator, State of Black Los Angeles County Report 2023. Responsible for historical and contemporary analysis of Black Angeleno Health Outcomes, Developed Socio-Cultural Analysis of Key Black Neighborhoods in Los Angeles and Recruited Subject Matter Experts in the areas of housing and homelessness, criminal justice, healthcare, education and economic develop to support the development of a 109-page comprehensive analysis of Black wellness along various indicators. See the report here: https://ceo.lacounty.gov/state-of-black-los-angeles-county-report/

Invited Guest Panelist: “Academic Life Histories and Praxes”, Presented at the 4^th Annual Methods and Methodologies Working Symposium for Early to Mid-Career Women Scholars, Callie House Research Center for the Study of Global Black Cultures and Politics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, September 2019
Invited Guest Lecture: “Movement Conservatism and Anti-Blackness in the Academy”, Presented to the Osher Life Long Learning Institute, CSUDH, February 2019
Brown Bag Lecture: “Race and the Shifting Notion of the Public Good; CSU Trustees, Student Protests and the Making of the Neoliberal University, 1960-1974”, CSUDH College of Arts and Humanities Brown Bag Lecture Series, 2018.
“Black and Filipino Neighborhoods in Compton and Watts/Willowbrook: A Shared History”, Presented at the South Bay/San Pedro History Symposium, CSUDH, 2018

Workshop Facilitator, Webinar, Black Women’s Post-Civil Rights Educational Activism: Implications for Contemporary Praxis for the Anti-Racism Ambassadors’ Network (Canada), June 19, 2024.
Workshop Facilitator, Beyond Cultural Competence in the Public Sector Workplace”, Staff Retreat Workshop for Assemblyman Mike Gipson, California 64th Legislative District.
Workshop Facilitator, Korean Resource Center Orange County “Anti-Blackness in Asian and Latinx Communities (part of their Leaders of the New School Civic Engagement Project).
Guest Facilitator, “From Failure to Success and Back: Understanding Professional Growth” CSUF Honors College Workshop.
Workshop Facilitator, UCLA Dream/Labor Studies Center “History of Interracial Social Justice Activism”.

Panelist, Roundtable on the Scholarship of Dr. Amos Wilson’ Blueprint for Black America, 8^th Annual Pan African Global Trade and Investment Conference, CSUDH, October 2018.
Panelist, Roundtable on Feminist Mentoring and Self-Care, Asian American Feminisms Caucus, Asian American Studies Association Conference, March 2018.
“Race and Gender in the Exercise of University Trustee Power: Dr. Claudia Hampton and the California State University System”, Oxford Women’s Leadership Symposium (Somerville College – Oxford, United Kingdom), December 2017.
“The Uses and Abuses of Corporate Philanthropy in American Higher Education: An Analysis of the Impact of Corporate Money on Women and People of Color in the Academy,” Presented at the California American Studies Association Conference, Fullerton, California, April 2016.
“ Claudia Hampton, Critical Biography and the Ethical Dilemmas of Chronicling Black Firsts” Presented at the CSUF Liberal Studies Conference, Fullerton, California, March 2016.
“The Challenge of Teaching Race and Racism in a PWI/HSI on the West Coast”, Presented at the 100^thAnnual Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, September 2015.