Invited Talks and Panels:

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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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:

Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms (EPIC) Program’s inaugural conference Humanities Now: Transformative Teaching at UCLA on April 5-6, 2018 - panelist

"Defying Death: Black Joy as Resistance Online," 68th Annual ICA conference, “Voices”, Prague, Czech Republic, 24-28 May 2018

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