Lectures & Workshops
Online Guest Speaker
8:00pm ET, March 21, 2024
”Reparative Reckoning on an Alabama Campus”
Hosted by Kidsinbirmingham1963
Keynote Speaker
6:00pm ET, November 16, 2023
”Reparative Reckoning on an Alabama Campus”
32nd Annual International NAME Conference
Montgomery, Alabama
Guest Speaker
3:30pm ET, September 14, 2023
”A Just Reckoning: Forging Deeper, Truer King House Narratives”
Pat Scales Room, Carmichael Library, University of Montevallo
Montevallo, Alabama
Virtual Author Talk
7:00pm ET, December 7, 2022
”Why We Must Remember: A Descendant’s Reckoning
with Her Enslaving Ancestors”
Hosted by CSWAC’s Anti-Racist Community Network
Guest Speaker
9:30am ET, April 14, 2022
”Why We Must Remember: A King Descendant’s Reckoning
with Her Slaveholding Ancestors”
Carmichael Library, University of Montevallo
Montevallo, Alabama
Past Lectures & Workshops
Virtual Community Conversations Series
6-8pm ET, November 18, 2021
“Lessons from Pro-Disability, Anti-Oppression Educators”
Panelists: Dionardo Pizaña, Dessa Cosma, and Melanie Morrison
Hosted by Detroit Disability Power
Virtual Workshop Series
May 14, 15, 21, & 22, 2021
”This Is What Accountability Looks Like”
Co-facilitated with Marquita Chamblee and Dionardo Pizaña
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan
Virtual Lecture
October 15, 2020
“Beyond Good Intentions: The Role White People Must Play in the Work of Racial Justice”
Methodist Theological School in Ohio
Panel Presentation
June 13, 2019
“Transforming Scholarly Publishing Through an Equity and Anti-Racism Framework”
Panel presentation at the Association of University Presses Annual Meeting
with Cathy Rimer-Surles and Gisela Concepción Fosado
Detroit, Michigan
The 2019 Hallie Farmer Lecture Series
March 12, 2019
University of Montevallo
“Researching Injustice: Telling the Story of Legal Lynching in Jim Crow Birmingham”
Montevallo, Alabama
Guest Speaker
January 15, 2018
”Building Inclusive Communities”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Endowed Scholarship Community Dinner
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan