CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

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"The U.S. Colored Soldiers" Athens Chautauqua Society                                       2023

"Youth Self-Expression Workshop" Athens Chautauqua Society                          2023

:Storytelling for Community Building," Junior League of NC Conference            2022

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"Personally Connected Pedagogy," National Institute for Staff and                     2021

Organizational Development (NISOD), North Carolina Community College

System (NCCCS); First Generation Symposium, &The  Rowan-Cabarrus

Community College Growth, Understanding, Inclusion, Diversity, & Equity 

(G.U.I.D.E.) Conference

 

"Meeting Students Where They Are" (panelist), Carolina Communication            2021

Association 

 

"1770 to 2020: Race, Revolt & Resistance," Carolina K-12                                         2020

 

"Storytelling for Resilience," Franklin County Schools, NC                                        2020

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"Storytelling for Social Impact, Assoc. of Maternal & Child Health Programs        2019

 

"Autoethnographic Engagements: Surviving with/in Scholarship (panelist), NCA 2019, 

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“Addressing Educational Disparity with Digital Technology Distribution,”              2019

National Communication Association Annual (NCA) Annual Convention

 

“A Critical Race Theory Approach to Interpersonal Communication,”                     2019

National Communication Association (NCA) Annual Convention

*Top Student Paper Award

 

“Autoethnographic Engagements: Surviving with/in Scholarship” (panelist),          2019

National Communication (NCA) Association Annual Convention

 

“Performatively Unpacking the Race Talk”

• We Are Annual Let’s Talk Racism Conference, Durham, NC                                2019

• Black Communities Conference, Durham, NC                                                       2019

• Free Speech Conference: Finding Expression in Contested Public                    2019

Spaces, UNC Greensboro

 

“The Talk” 

• National Communication Association (NCA) Annual Convention                      2018

• ACCelerate Conference, on behalf of Innovate Carolina, Washington D.C.      2018

 

“Trauma-Informed Performance-Based Intervention for Marginalized Youth,”     2018

National Communication Association (NCA) Annual Convention

 

“Aspiring Beyond the Achievement Gap: An Analytic Transformation in                2018    

Education,” National Communication Association (NCA) Annual Convention

*Top Paper Award

 

“Reframing ‘The Talk’: Aesthetics of Resisting Negative Biotropes of Black             2018

Youth,” National Communication Association (NCA) Annual Convention

 

“Pipelines to Pathways:  Empowering Marginalized Youth of Color Through         2018

Embodied Performance,” Black Communities Conference, Durham, NC

 

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

 

Institute for Personally Connected Pedagogy, FTCC                                                   2021-2022

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The Power of Words Storytelling Workshop

• Assoc. of Maternal and Child Health Title V Programs, Washington, D.C.         2019

• UNC Chapel Hill Maternal and Child Health Center                                              2019

• Action Pathways Second Harvest Food Bank Partner Training                           2015

 

The Talk, one-man show written and directed by Sonny Kelly

• Syracuse University                                                                                                    2020

• Fayetteville State University’s Fine Arts Series                                                       2020

• African American Heritage Society, Pensacola, FL                                                2019

• Carolina Public Humanities, K-12, Chapel Hill, NC                                                2019

• USA Transactional Analysis Association 50th International                                2019

        Conference, “Promoting Equality and OKness: Healing the

        Divisions in Our World,” Raleigh, NC

• StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance and Bulldog                      2019

       Ensemble Theater, Chapel Hill and Durham, NC

 

“Talking The Talk: A Performance-Centered Approach to Diversity and Inclusion”

• Carolina Public Humanities, K-12                                                                            2019

• Kenan Flagler School of Business, UNC Chapel Hill                                             2019   

 

“From Sidekicks to Superheroes: The Importance of Positive Black                        2018

Protagonists in the Development of Self-Concept for Youth of Color,”

NC State University’s African American Cultural Center

 

“Winning the Dope Game:  A Youth Workers’ Guide to Combating the Draw of   2015

Sex, Drugs and Technology Among Teens,” North Carolina Juvenile Services

Agency Conference, Carolina Beach, NC