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SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS & APPEARANCES
2026
July
- Anti-Coercion in Mental Health: Rights, Resistance, and Reform
AVES Mental Health
June
- We've Been Too Patient: Moving from Institutional Harm to Radical Healing
ONTRACK
May
- From Survival to Solidarity: Lived Experience, Psychiatry, and Collective Action in a Time of Strain
American Psychiatric Association Annual Conference, Invited Panel Co-Chair (San Francisco, California) - What Black Communities Should Know about Psychiatric Care
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective, Regulate to Resist Series, Invited/Paid Speaker (Virtual)
January
- Empire Abroad, Carcerality at Home: Refusing Psychiatry's Colonial Inheritance
Health Humanities Consortium Annual Conference, Invited Speaker (Virtual) - Clinical Activism as Ethical Practice: A Humanistic Framework for Justice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Health Humanities Consortium Annual Conference, Invited Speaker (Virtual) - Putting It into Practice: Ethical, Non-Coercive Psychiatric Care in Action
Institute for the Development of Human Arts, Transformative Mental Health Curriculum Faculty Member, Invited/Paid Speaker (Virtual) - Understanding Medication through Evidence and Experience: Beyond the Prescription Pad
Institute for the Development of Human Arts, Transformative Mental Health Curriculum Faculty Member, Invited/Paid Speaker (Virtual)
2025
December
- There Are No Bad Kids: Antiracist Strategies for Supporting Students & Disrupting Harmful Diagnoses
National Association of Black Student Educators Annual Conference, Invited Speaker (Chicago, Illinois)
- Your Despair Is Not Disorder: Youth Mental Health and Racial Justice in a Time of Crisis
Pitzer College Racial Justice Initiative Distinguished Scholar-Activist Lecture, Invited/Paid Speaker (Claremont, California)
- From Diagnostic Condemnation to Racial Equity: Advancing Person-Centered Forensic Mental Healthcare
California Department of State Hospitals, 12th Annual Multicultural Conference, Invited/Paid Keynote Speaker (Virtual)
- There Are No Bad Kids: Rethinking ODD, Resistance, and Youth Mental Health through An Antiracist Lens
United States Transgender Professional Health Association Annual Conference, Invited Speaker (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
- Grappling with the Biomedical Model with Dr. Rupi Legha and Robert Whitaker
Institute for the Development of Human Arts, Tending the Future of Care Series, Invited/Paid Faculty (Virtual)
- Forging a New Science, Structural Psychology: The Life of Institutions and Their Embodied Power
Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health, Invited/Paid Panel Member (Virtual)
2024
September
- Alliance for Right and Recovery Annual Conference: Antiracism in Practice Not Just Theory, Unapologetically Black Unicorns Podcast Recording
Invited/Funded Speaker (Catskills, New York)
2023
April
- The Legacy of Racism in Psychology and Psychiatry
Pitzer College Inside Out Program/Justice Education Initiative at the Claremont Colleges, Invited/Paid Speaker, California Rehabilitation Center (Norco, California)
- Antiracism in Medicine Curriculum Series: Antiracism in Mental Health Module
University of California, San Francisco PRIME-US (Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved), Invited/Paid Speaker (San Francisco, California)
- Antiracism in Medicine Curriculum Series: Antiracism in Mental Health Module
University of California, San Diego CAPIE (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Inclusive Excellence), Year-Round Program, Invited/Paid Speaker (San Diego, California)
2022
December
- Antiracism in Medicine Curriculum Series: Antiracism in Mental Health Module
University of California, San Diego CAPIE (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Inclusive Excellence), Summer Program, Invited/Paid Speaker (San Diego, California)
- An Antiracist Approach to Psychiatry and Medical Education
Pitzer College, Department of Psychology, Invited/Paid Speaker (Claremont, California)
- American Medical Student Association Abortion Care and Reproductive Justice Institute
Invited/Paid Roundtable Speaker (Virtual) - Abolishing Medical Brutality: Antiracism in Clinical Care
Atlanta Wellstar Family Medicine Residency Didactics, Invited/Paid Speaker (Atlanta, GA)
- The 4th Trimester, Speak! Move! Change! Virtual Series Honoring Black Maternal Health Week
Invited Roundtable Moderator (Virtual) - Getting off the Racist Sidelines: An Antiracist Approach to Clinical Supervision in Mental Health Care
University of Washington Idaho Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Invited/Paid Speaker (Boise, Idaho) - A Practical Approach to Antiracism in Medicine Education (Antiracism in Cardiovascular Medicine Module)
American Association of Medical Colleges, Western Group on Educational Affairs Annual Conference, Workshop (Portland, Oregon)
- Antiracism in Medicine Curriculum Series: Antiracism in Mental Health Module
University of California, San Diego CAPIE (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Inclusive Excellence), Extended Didactics Series, Invited/Paid Speaker (San Diego, California)
2021
October
- A Call to Action: An Antiracist Approach to Clinical Supervision in Mental Health Care
University of Maryland, Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Invited/Paid Speaker (Baltimore, Maryland) - Antiracism in Medicine Curriculum Series: Antiracism in Cardiovascular Medicine Module
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine PRIME-US, Didactics, Invited/Paid Speaker (San Francisco, California) - Reimagining Global Health as Local Health: The AAFP Antiracism in Medicine Curriculum Series
AAFP 2021 Annual Global Health Summit, Presentation (Virtual)
- The Antiracism in Medicine Curriculum Series: An Abolitionist Approach to Antiracism
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists Excellence through Mentorship Series, Invited Speaker (Washington, D.C.) - No More Building Resilience among URM Trainees: Dismantling Structural Whiteness to Reimagine Psychiatry Residency Training as an Antiracist Experience
Association for Academic Psychiatry Annual Meeting, Presidential Symposium, Invited/Paid Panelist (Vancouver, British Columbia)
- Interviewing with an Antiracist Lens Part 2: Case
University of California San Diego School of Medicine Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Inclusive Excellence Summer Program, Invited/Paid Speaker (San Diego, California)
- An Antiracist Approach to Mental Healthcare: Five Core Tenets
The Crisis and Recovery Enhancement (CARE) Technical Assistance Center's Listening, Learning, and Leading: Anti-Racism in California's Crisis Continuum of Care Conference, Invited/Paid Speaker (California) - Antiracism in Mental Health Training
The Crisis and Recovery Enhancement (CARE) Technical Assistance Center's Listening, Learning, and Leading: Anti-Racism in California's Crisis Continuum of Care Conference, Invited/Paid Speaker (California) - Interviewing with an Antiracist Lens Part 1: Reflective Practice
University of California San Diego School of Medicine Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Inclusive Excellence Summer Program, Invited/Paid Speaker (San Diego, California)
- The Legacy of Slavery in American Medicine and Psychiatry
Massachusetts Psychiatric Society Antiracism Conference Series, Invited Speaker (Boston, MA)
- Reimagining Medical Education: The Antiracism in Medicine Curriculum Series (Antiracism in Cardiovascular Medicine Module)
Beyond Flexner Alliance Annual Conference, Presentation (Phoenix, Arizona)
- Youth Rising: Challenging Racism in Clinical Practice Part 2: Diagnosing Racism and Taking the Racial Trauma History
University of California Irvine Leadership Education to Advance Diversity—African, Black, and Caribbean (LEAD-ABC) Lecture Series, Lead/Attending Speaker (Irvine, CA)
- Youth Rising: Challenging Racism in Clinical Practice Part 1: Challenging Racism in Clinical Practice
University of California Irvine Leadership Education to Advance Diversity—African, Black, and Caribbean (LEAD-ABC) Lecture Series, Lead/Attending Speaker (Irvine, CA)
- Mental Health De-Escalation from An Abolition Perspective
LA Communication Action Network (Los Angeles), Community Meeting - Mental Health De-Escalation from An Abolition Perspective
Dignity and Power Now (Los Angeles), Community Meeting