Training + Facilitation
Bringing provocative thought experiments, experiential learning practices, engaging media content, storytelling, and mindfulness practices to generate out of the box ideas, personal insight, and deep community
Current Trainings & Workshops
- Using Non-Violent Communication to Build Inclusive Organizational Cultures
- Discerning the Next Right Thing: Making Decisions that Resonate
- Self Care for World Changers
- Lookism 101: Unpacking Beauty Culture, Ableism, and Fatphobia
- Bad Allying: Real Talk about White Anti-Racism and White Supremacy
Teaching
Here’s where I’ve taught…
University of California, Los Angeles, Vanderbilt University, Warren Wilson College, Western Carolina University, and Belmont University
Here’s what I taught…
- Queer Sociology
- Medical Sociology
- Feminist & Gender Theory
- Public Sociology
- Sociology of Gender
- Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
- Social Problems
- Sociology Through Film
- Deviant Social Behavior
- Introduction to Sociology
- Human Society
- Medicine and Society
- Gender and Society
- Contemporary Social Problems
- Men and Women in American Society



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Lectures, Keynotes, and Conference Presentations
As a speaker-facilitator, I have engaged groups on topics ranging from sexual consent to racism, medical innovation to queer politics, social activism to transformative teaching.I have been a featured speaker at University of Chicago, Cornell College, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, the National Women’s Studies Association, the American Sociological Society, the Society for Social Problems, and the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Summit.
Past Events:
- Book Talks about Saving Face at Oregon State University, Salem College, Pepperdine University, and the University of North Carolina-Asheville
- It’s Not Slacktivism: Innovating Intersectional Feminist Activism in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter at The University of North Carolina-Charlotte
- Writing Feminist Futures, From Idea to Submission at The University of North Carolina-Charlotte
- Mediating Feminisms: A Workshop by The Feminist Wire at National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference
- Thinking Inequalities and Difference Alongside Policies of Reproductive Politics and Sexuality at Woodhull Sexual Freedom Summit
- Saving Face: The Vital Significance of Aesthetic Intervention at American Sociological Association Annual Conference
- Writing Protest, Public Feminism: Notes on The Feminist Wire at Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference
- Queering Pedagogical Space: A Workshop on Teaching at Queer Studies Conference UNCA
- Sharing Feminism: The Promise of Social Media for 21st Century Feminist Consciousness Raising at WCU Gender Conference
- Gender and the Science of Difference: Cultural Politics of Contemporary Science and Medicine at National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference
- Writing Pop Feminism, Doing Feminist Public Sociology at University of Chicago
- Teaching Queerly: The Politics of Location and Other Queer Conundra in the Classroom at Queer Studies Conference UNCA
- Aesthetic Intervention as Life Saving Work: The Case of Face Transplantation at American Sociological Association Annual Conference
- Not a Pretty Face: Face Transplantation and the Construction of Difference As Death” and “Aesthetic Interventions and the Production of Unremarkability at Cornell College
- Not a Pretty Girl: Facial Feminization and the Theory of Facial Sex Difference at American Sociological Association Annual Conference
- Thinking and Theorizing: Telling a Sociological Story, Appearance Matters: Aesthetics and Disability, Deconstructing Race Talk, and Gendering the Face at University of North Carolina, Asheville
- Extreme Makeover: Cultural Investments in Face Work at the American Sociological Association Annual Conference
- Enacting Critical Pedagogy: Praxis in the Undergraduate Classroom at Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Conference
- Integrating Queer Studies into the Sociology Curriculum at American Sociological Association Annual Conference
- The Contradictory Contours of the Contemporary GLBTQ Political Landscape at American Sociological Association Annual Conference
- Interrupting University Inequality Talk: The Interjection of Queer/Critical Praxis into Classrooms, Curriculum and Academic Space at Southern Sociological Society Annual Meetings
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