Talks

Whether I'm presenting a paper at an academic conference or speaking to an audience outside of my home discipline, I enjoy bringing philosophical ideas to life and connecting with my listeners. Below you'll find a list of my public presentations and academic talks.

Select Public Presentations:

"Anger." Department of Logic, Philosophy, and Scientific Method, London School of Economics, January 2022
“Body Positivity: What Is It? What Do We Want It to Be?” Philosophy in an Inclusive Key, June 2021
“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
“Mindfulness in the Classroom,” Second Annual Inclusiveness Seminar, University of Miami, April 2017
"Embodying Resistance to Resistance to Oppression." Harvard Horizons Symposium, May 2015.

Select Academic Presentations:

"Eating, Cooking, and the Ethics of Self-Care," Philosophy Department, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, April 2024
Keynote Address: "Race, Bodily Alienation, and the Politics of Self-Care," Social Justice and Oppression Workshop, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, February 2024
"The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Tyranny of Slenderness Twenty Years Later,” American Society for Aesthetics, Arlington, VA, November 2023
Keynote Address: "Embodying Bias,” Implicit Bias: What Are We Missing? Workshop, Munich School of Philosophy, Munich, Germany, October 2023
"Body Image and the Ethics of Self-Care," American Society for Existential Phenomenology, Harvard University, June 2023
"How Can We Embody Self-Care? Lessons from the Body Positivity Movement," University of Alabama, Huntsville, March 202
"The Future of Black and Asian Solidarities," Central APA, February 2023
"Is Justice Required for Happiness? – Lessons from Feminist Theory,'' Science of Ethics and Happiness Project, Casina Pio IV, Vatican City, February 2022
"Fearing the Future: Is Life Worth Living in the Anthropocene?" University of Tampa, November 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
“Simone de Beauvoir’s Feminist Art of Living,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, 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
“‘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
“Embodying Resistance to Racial Oppressions,” Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University, October 2015