As Invited Speaker
“Gender Studies 101”
May 2024, Organized by the Pride Center at Pasadena City College
“Pronouns Matter: Histories of Scientific Racism and the Administration of Sex and Gender”
February 2023, Organized by the Pride Center at Pasadena City College
Symposium: “Automation, Algorithms, and Bias, from Settler Colonialism through the Future of Auditing”
April 2021, Organized by the Digital Scholarship Studio and Network at the University of Buffalo
Sarah Montoya, “Settler Colonial Bias in GIS”
Cathy O’Neil, “What is the future of algorithmic auditing? Two different scenarios”
Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, “Automation of Judgments and the Ends of Thinking”
Moderator: Evviva Weinraub Lajoie
I pledged to donate a portion of the funds I received for speaking to organizations serving Black, Indigenous, Queer, and Trans folks. As an academic who has access to resources and a committed activist in the project of abolition, it is imperative that we practice resource redistribution in solidarity with communities targeted for state and social violence. These are the two organizations supported.
The Okra Project is a mutual aid collective supporting Black Trans people and alleviating the barriers the community faces. They envision a safe, abundant, and equitable life for Black Trans people in the US.
The IRSSS provides essential services to residential school survivors/students, their families and loved ones, and Indigenous people experiencing intergenerational trauma.
Recent Conference Presentations
"Reckoning with Relationality: Indigenous Scientific Knowledge, Settler Colonial Formations, and the Assumption of Settler Futurity"
"America Online: Digital Place Making and Story Telling on the Anza National Historic Trail "
