Workshops & Presentations

Workshops

Where World and Skin Meet: The Embodied Lyric Essay – Iowa City Poetry (July 2022)
Toward Community and Care: Disability-Informed Writing Practices – Arts in Medicine, University of Alabama (May 2022)
Where World and Skin Meet: The Embodied Poem – Iowa City Poetry (April 2022)
Arts and Writing Activism: Sins Invalid Documentary Screening and Workshop – This Body is Worthy (2021)
Storytelling for Change – #UpgradeMedicaid (2021)
Reclaiming the Body – Ad Astra Project (2020)
Liberatory Life Writing for Disabled Writers – Words of Reclamation (2020)
Community art workshops – This Body is Worthy (2018)

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Creating an Inclusive Workplace: Proactive Access – Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation Services (Oct. 2022)
How We Support Each Other: Community Care and Disability Justice – Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals (Sept. 2022)
Forgotten Again: COVID-19’s Impact on the Disability Community – Sprout Social’s Accessibility Community Resource Group (July 2022)
Models of Disability Applied to Healthcare Professions – Drake University’s Occupational Therapy Program (March 2022)
Writing and Arts Advocacy – University of Iowa’s Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies Department (Nov. 2021)
Storytelling for Change – #UpgradeMedicaid, with Zach Mecham (summer 2021)
Event and Class/Classroom Accessibility – University of Kansas ADA Resource Center for Equity and Accessibility (Apr. 2021)
Words of Reclamation: Writing as a Form of Liberation for Disabled Individuals – Disability Studies Seminar, University of Kansas (Sep. 2020)
Metaphors and Mobility: Examining how “language” informs disability identity with Josh Halstead – University of Michigan’s Language, Rhetoric, and Digital Publics: Making Space for All conference (Oct. 2019)
The Disability Story: Diversity in Media – SXSW 2019 with Imani Barbarin, Emily Ladau, and Maryangel Garcia-Ramos