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Invited Talks and Panels:


​Chesapeake Digital Humanities Consortium - Keynote Speaker, The College of William & Mary Williamsburg, Virginia, February 21, 2020

​Michigan State University Fall Distinguished Lecture in Digital Humanities, East Lansing Michigan, November 4, 2019

​Omohundro Institute Digital Symposium - Invited Panelist - Washington DC, September 26-27, 2019

​Project STAND - Invited Panelist - Chicago, IL September 19, 2019

​2019 Beyond the Magic: Digital Black Feminism and Toxicity Online, Race, Gender, & Toxicity Online hosted by the Social Science Research Council, Austin, Texas—Invited Opening Plenary Speaker

2019 My Feminism is Digital and Black, Feminist DH: Intersectionality and Doing Justice with/to Data, The University of Virginia Scholars Lab—Invited Plenary Speaker

2019 Black Girl Labor as Magic: Toward an understanding of Digital Black Feminism , The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace Spring Lecture—Invited Keynote Lecturer

2018 Emerging Digital Humanities, Digital Caucus, American Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, November, 2018.—Invited panelist

2018  Developing Black Digital Humanities Initiatives, Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT) – Invited Course Instructor

2018 Best Practices Workshop “Thinking Through the Archives” hosted by the USC Mellon Digital Humanities Program— Invited presenter

2018  Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms (EPIC) Program’s inaugural conference Humanities Now: Transformative Teaching at UCLA—Invited panelist

2017 Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities Campus of William and Mary, - Invited Panelist

2017 Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood's 8th conference in Washington DC,  Media Pre-Conference invited panelist

2017 Black Joy and Resistance: Black Feminist Discourse Online Humanities Lab at American University , Washington DC - Invited Speaker

2017 Badges of Oppression, Positions of Strength: Digital Black Feminist Discourse and the Legacy of Black Women's Technology Use, Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University Luncheon Series, Cambridge, Mass - Invited Speaker


2017 Parren Mitchell Symposium "Truth & Lies: Race, Media, and Politics - Speaking Out Loud: Blogs, Music, and TV" at the University of Maryland, College Park - Invited pPanelist

2016 Deviant Black Bodies and Embodied Black feminism in the Blogosphere
Digital Dialogues Series, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities - Invited Speaker


2015 “A Multicultural Mindset for Journalists” - Spring National High School Journalism Convention sponsored by the Journalism Education Association and the National Scholastic Press Association – Denver, Colorado - Invited Speaker

2015 “Black Women and the Media” Black Women’s Summit – Colorado State University  - Invited Speaker

Conference Presentations
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2018 Joy is Resistance: Resilience and (Re)Invention in Black Oral Culture Online, Association of Internet Researchers, Montreal, QB, with Jessica Lu

2018 Defying Death: Black Joy as Resistance Online, International Communication Association, Prague, Czech Republic, with Jessica Lu
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2017 Deviant black bodies and embodied black feminism in the blogosphere, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL 

2016 Beyond Tragedy or Transcendence: Obama, Mixed Race Representation, and the Digital Turn”
Obama 2.0 Conference, University of Maryland Baltimore County

2016 Get in Formation: The new rules of engagement for black feminist discourse online
Association of Internet Research, Berlin, Germany

2016 The Virtual Beauty Shop: Crafting a Digital Black Feminism in the Blogosphere
Digital Blackness Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

2015 When the black lives that matter are not our own: Social justice and a digital black feminism (panel organizer)
Association of Internet Researchers Conference 16, Phoenix, AZ

2015 Real and imagined boundaries: Building connections between social justice activists and internet researchers (Roundtable organizer)
Association of Internet Researchers Conference 16, Phoenix, AZ

2015 Blogging Ferguson: Self-care and the ‘practice of freedom’ for marginalized writers and communities online
International Communication Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2014 A different model for academic mentoring: How race, multiplicity, and holism intersect with online social media, with Jenny Korn, Association of Internet Researchers Conference 15, Daegu South Korea

2014 “Classroom Ethics: Social Media”, with Andrea Guzman
National Communication Association, Short course, Chicago, IL.

2013 Shaking off the Other: Appropriation of marginalized culture and the Harlem Shake Association of Internet Researchers Conference 14, Denver Colorado

2013 The Virtual Barbershop: The political implications of community discourse online
Black Doctoral Network Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA

2012 In Search of Community: Popular culture driven temporary support communities on SNS
Association of Internet Researchers Conference 13 (panel chair), Salford, England

2012 #RIPWhitney: Grieving online and the extension of secondary orality
Association of Internet Researchers Conference 13 (panel participant), Salford, England

2012 Protective or Oppressive? Analyzing Death Penalty Framing , with Elycia Taylor and Emilie Luchessi, National Communication Association 2012 conference, Orlando, FL

2012 From tragedy to transcendence: A model of biracial identity in media representation
National Communication Association 2012 , Orlando, FL

2010 Worthy of Rescue: Framing poverty in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster” Illinois Communication Collaboration Conference. Champaign, IL.



Upcoming:

​“Listen to Black Women: Virtue Signaling, Rhetoric, and Digital Black Feminism”
#Feminism: Gender & the 2020 Election
The Seventh Annual Women’s History Month Symposium
Friday, October 30, 2020
Online – register for link
10:00 am – 4:15 pm EST
Presented by the Northeastern Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
Sponsored by the Northeastern Humanities Center

Free Registration required to receive link to online event page.

Northeastern University Feminism and Democracy, March 2020



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