Talks

Scholarly Presentations:

"How Can We Embody Self-Care? Lessons from the Body Positivity Movement," Mudd Center for Ethics, Washington and Lee University, April 2023
"The Future of Black and Asian Solidarities," Central APA, February 2023
"The Future of Black and Asian Solidarities," American Philosophies Forum, April 2022
"Is Justice Required for Happiness? – Lessons from Feminist Theory,'' Science of Ethics and Happiness Project, Casina Pio IV, Vatican City, February 2022
"The Social Construction of the White Body," Department of Philosophy, Wesleyan University, November 2021
"Fearing the Future: Is Life Worth Living in the Anthropocene?" University of Tampa, November 2021
“Phenomenology at the Intersection of Gender and Race," Department of Philosophy, Wesleyan University, May 2021
"Fearing the Future: Is Life Worth Living in the Anthropocene?" American Philosophies Forum, April 2021
"Phenomenology at the Intersection of Gender and Race," Cultural Life Program, Furman University, October 2020
“Body Positivity: What Is It? What Do We Want It to Be?,” Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, November 2019
“‘What Are You?’ – Addressing Racial Ambiguity,” Department of Philosophy, DePaul University, May 2019
“‘What Are You?’ - Reflections on the Phenomenology of Mixed-Race Experience,” Eastern APA, January 2019
“Simone de Beauvoir’s Feminist Art of Living,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, October 2018
“Feminist Pornography: What Would Simone de Beauvoir Say?” 25th International Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society, October 2018
“ ‘What Are You?’ – Addressing Racial Ambiguity,” California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race, October 2018
“Reforming Racializing Bodily Habits: Mindfulness Meditation as an Intervention,” The Logic of Racial Practice: Embodied Cognition, Habitus, and Implicit Bias Symposium, University of Pittsburgh, April 2018
“ ‘The Audacity of Hope: Reclaiming Obama’s Optimism in the Trump Era,” American Philosophies Forum, April 2018
“‘What Are You?’ – Alienation and Objectification in Mixed-Race Experience,” Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University, January 2018
“Anatomy of the Thigh Gap,” Eastern APA, January 2018
“In Simone de Beauvoir’s Footsteps: A Philosophy of Walking,” Philosophy Department, Pennsylvania State University, November 2017
“Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir’s Art of Living,” 24th International Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society, June 2017
“Reforming Racializing Bodily Habits: The Practice of Mindfulness,” Mentoring Workshop for Pre-tenure Women in Philosophy, June 2017
“In Simone de Beauvoir’s Footsteps: Feminism Embodied,” GEA Humanities Faculty Lecture, Florida International University, April 2017
“Reforming Racializing Bodily Habits,” philoSOPHIA, March 2017
“Embodying Resistance to Racial Oppressions,” CUNY Graduate Center MAPshop, February 2016
“Embodying Resistance to Racial Oppressions,” Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University, October 2015
“Anatomy of the Thigh Gap,” Workshop on Feminist Ontology, MIT, October 2015
“Embodying Resistance to Oppressions,” Harvard Horizons Symposium, May 2015
“Alienation and Objectification in the Works of Beauvoir and Fanon,” Diverse Lineages of Existentialism Conference, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, June 2014
“Alienation and Objectification in the Works of Beauvoir and Fanon,” European Philosophy Workshop, Harvard University, December 2013

Comments:

Comments on Manon Garcia’s We Are Not Born Submissive, Eastern APA, January 2022
Comments on Nathalie Nya’s Simone de Beauvoir and the Colonial Experience, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, September 2021
Comments for Body Politics: African American and Latinx Feminist Cultures of Resistance, Florida International University, November 2020
Comments on Nick Wiltsher’s “The Aesthetic Constitution of Genders,” Southern Aesthetics Workshop II, September 2020

Panels, Teaching, and Public Presentations:

"Anger." Department of Logic, Philosophy, and Scientific Method, London School of Economics, January 2022.
"Existentialism as a Way of Life," Department of Philosophy, Wesleyan University, November 2021
“Body Positivity: What Is It? What Do We Want It to Be?” Philosophy in an Inclusive Key, June 2021
“Nietzsche.” Composer in the Crossfire: Reassessing the Music of Nietzsche’s ‘St.Peter,’ Florida International University, March 2020
“Body Positivity: What Is It? What Do We Want It to Be?” Fluid Lines: Symposium on the Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality, Miami-Dade College, March 2020
“How to Become Happier? Live Like Aristotle!” More Fun Than Cheating: Creative Course Design to Foster Student Engagement, Florida International University, October 2019
“Mindfulness in the Classroom,” Second Annual Inclusiveness Seminar, University of Miami, April 2017