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Presentations

2023

  • "Race, Racism and Digital Technology: Understanding the Effects of Algorithmic Anti-Blackness on Black Students" ​

    • Invited Speaker / Harvard University School of Education 
       

  • Fostering Critical Race Computational Thinking in Computer Science: Co-Designing Abolitionist Technologies with Black Youth"

    • Invited Speaker / Presidential Session / AERA 2023 Conference, Chicago, IL
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  • "Employing Critical Race, Abolitionist Pedagogies In CS:  Designing Race-Conscious and Justice-Oriented Tech with Black Youth" ​

    • Presidential Session / AERA 2023 Conference, Chicago, IL
       

  • "Toward a Critical Race Technology Theory in Education: Interrogating Sociotechnical Racism in Educational Research, Pedagogy, and Practice

    • Roundtable Session / American Educational Research Association (AERA)
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  • "Freedom Dreaming in the Digital: Designing Fugitive Worlds and Abolitionist Technologies with Black Youth"

    •  Invited Speaker / UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry 
       

  • Race, Activism & Digital Trauma: Examining the Power and Peril of Social Media Activism for Black Girls"

    • Invited Speaker / Children & Screens
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  • "Race, Education, and #BlackLivesMatter: How Digital Activism and Algorithmic Oppression Impact Black Girls in College"

    •  Paper Presentation / AERA 2023 Conference, Chicago, IL
       

  • "DeBugging Black Death With/In the Digital: How Black Girls (Re) Purpose Tech For Hope, Healing & Bereavement" 

    • ​Paper Presentation / AERA 2023 Conference, Chicago, IL​
       

  • "DeBugging Black Death in the Digital: How Black Youth Survive, Resist and Redesign Anti-Black Technologies Towards Collective Change"

    • Invited Speaker / Informatics Seminar Series, UC Irvine​
       

  • "Race, Racism and Algorithmic Anti-Blackness"

    • ​Invited Speaker / Educational Ethics: A Field Launching Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
       

  • "Shifting Humanitarian Engineering Career Outcome Expectations: How anti-racism reflections on properties of whiteness influence interest in the field"

    • ​Invited Speaker / EPOC Conference, Berlin, Germany
       

  • "Fostering Critical Race Computational Thinking in CS: Preparing Youth to "Talk Back" and "Bring Wreck" to Algorithmic Anti-Blackness in Schools and Technology"

    • Invited Speaker / Alliance for Identity-Inclusive Computing, Duke University, Durham, NC​
       

  • AI & Kids

    • MIT Media Lab / Cambridge, MA​
       

  • "Race, Activism & Digital Wellness: How Social Media Shapes the Lives and Schooling Experiences of Black Youth"

    • Invited Speaker / New York Public Library Center for Educators and Schools

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Presentations

2022

  • ​"Tech , Trauma & Transformational Resistance: How Black Girls Use CS Technologies to Cope with Black Death, Dying and Spirit Murder"

    • Invited Speaker / AERA Conference 2022​
       

  •  "Towards a critical race techno-literacy: Fostering Students' Ability to Read, Resist & Revise Algorithmic Racism"

    • Invited Speaker /  International Conference on Urban Education (ICUE) 2022
       

  •  "Building a Homeplace in STEM: Leveraging Community Cultural Wealth to Foster STEM Resilience for Youth of Color"

    • Invited Speaker /  Connected Learning Summit 2022
       

  • "Using CRT to Study Race, Resistance and Technology in Education"

    • Critical Race Studies in Education Conference 2022​
       

  • ​"Towards a critical race techno-literacy: Fostering Students' Ability to Read, Resist & Revise Algorithmic Racism with/in Digital Technology"

    • Invited Speaker / Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) Conference 2022
       

  • ​"Critical Race Digital Content Analysis"

    • Invited Speaker / Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Conference
       

  • The Marathon Continues..In Computer Science: How Black Girls Encode Narratives of Hope, Healing and Futurity into CS Technologies

    • Invited Speaker / International Conference on Urban Education (ICUE) ​
       

  • "The Marathon Continues..In Computer Science: How Black Girl Students Use Technology to Grieve Black Death"​

    • Invited Speaker / AERA 2022 Conference, San Diego, CA
       

  • ​"Keys to the City: Nipsy Hussle, Marathon Education, and the Celebration of South Central"

    • Symposium / AERA Conference 2022
       

  • "Post-pandemic Life: Recovering from Burnout and Finding Motivation"

    • Invited Speaker / UCI Connected Learning Conference​
       

  • "Race, Technology, and Transformative Resistance: How Youth of Color Leverage CS to Survive and Resist Oppression in STEM Classrooms"

    •  Invited Speaker / AERA 2022 Conference, San Diego, CA




       

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2021

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  • "Toward a Critical Race RPP: How Race, Power, and Positionality Inform Practice Partnerships"

    • Invited talk / ASHE Conference, San Juan Puerto Rico

 

  • "Death, Discipline and Digital Resistance: How Black Youth Leverage Technology to Survive and Resist Anti-Black Racism"

    • Invited Talk / CU Boulder Leeds School of Business Alumni Career Webinar Series​
       

  • "A Black Town Hall: Mental Health and Resiliency"

    • Invited talk / Center for Communication and Media Studies, CU Boulder

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  • Co-Designing for Black Lives: How Black Youth Leverage Computer Science to Design and Deploy Race-Based Mental Health Spaces Online"

    • Invited talk / UC Irvine Youth Connections for Wellbeing Showcase
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  • "Navigating Professionalism and Anti-Blackness in the Academy"

    • Invited talk / CU Boulder College for Media, Communication and Information
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  • "Death, Discipline and Digital Resistance: How Black Youth Leverage Technology to Survive and Resist Anti-Black Racism"

    • Invited talk / CS Department, UC San Diego

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2020

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  • "Minoritized Students' Engagement, Identity, and Agency in Computer Science: Listening to the Students Themselves"

    • SIGCSE Conference, 2020, Minnesota, Missouri

 

  • "They Steady Tryin, But They Can't Break Us: Critical Perspectives in Prison, Prostitution and Poverty in the Lives of Black Women"

    •  Black Feminism Conference, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA

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  • "How Black Girl Activists Survive and Resist Racism Online" 

    •  Yale University, New Haven, CT

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  • "Death, Dying & the Necro-Digital Internet: Critical Examinations of #YouthActivism and Racial Trauma Online"

    • UC Irvine Connected Learning Alliance Speaker Series​
       

  • "Multiraciality in Higher Education"

    •  Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, USC, CA

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  • "Black Women and Digital Diasporas: A Post-Colonial, Global Black Feminist Perspective"

    •  Black Feminism, Womanism and the Politics of Women of Colour in Europe Conference, October 2017,  Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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