Conferences

 

Discussant. “Repression, Revolution, and Ruckus: Public Histories of Structural Violence and Resistance,” The Susman Graduate Conference, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, March 28, 2025.  

 

Moderator and planning consultant. WGS Symposium on “Remembering Trans Histories,” Rutgers University-Newark, March 24, 2025.

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Panelist, “All Roads Lead to Newark, New Jersey: Teaching and Researching the Local,” American Historical Association 138th Annual Meeting. New York, New York, January 5, 2025.

 

Keynote Conversation, “Humanities Projects Inside and Outside the Academy,” Second Annual Clement A. Price Scholars mini-conference, Rutgers-Newark, October 26, 2024. The Price Humanities Scholars Program is a curricular pathway for diverse students in the Honors Living Learning Community, designed to encourage participating Scholars to pursue graduate degrees in humanities disciplines. 

 

Invited Speaker and Curator, 2024 Inclusion Summit, “Disrupting Hate: Coalition Building Across Difference,” Tyler Clementi Center for Diversity Education and Bias Prevention, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, September 27, 2024. Curated an audio library of oral history clips from the Queer Newark Oral History Project for the conference.

 

Presenter, American Studies Symposium, “Why Collaboration Matters,” Rutgers University – Newark, April 19, 2024.

 

Invited Presenter, “Lessons Learned, Paths Taken, and What Lies Ahead.” National Council on Public History 2021 Annual Meeting. Virtual session. March 8-27, 2021.

 

Session Facilitator, “Tell Me a Story: A Queer Newark Oral History Workshop,” Telling Untold Histories Unconference. Rutgers University-Newark. April 26, 2019.

 

Panel Organizer, Queer Newark Oral History Project Pop Up, National Council on Public History 2019 Annual Meeting. Hartford, CT. March 28, 2019.

 

Cancelled due to COVID19 pandemic: 

Presenter at the 2020 National Council on Public History Conference. Atlanta, GA.

Presenter at 2020 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. Baltimore, MD.

 

Panelist, “Making Place Queer: LGBTQ History and Preservation,” 2018 NJ History and Historic Preservation Conference. Passaic County Community College. Paterson, NJ. June 8, 2018.

 

Panelist, “Let’s Listen: Presenting Diverse Oral Histories,” New Jersey Library Association Annual Conference. Atlantic City, NJ. May 31, 2018.

 

Discussion Leader, “Oral History Bootcamp Part 2.” Telling Untold Histories Unconference. Newark Public Library. Newark, NJ. May 17, 2018.

 

Panelist, “Creating Absent Archives: Empowering Community Histories,” National Council on Public History 2018 Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, NV. April 20, 2018.

 

Session Facilitator. “LGBTQ: Responsible Stories/Privacy & Safety,” Telling Untold Histories Unconference. Rutgers University-Newark. May 11, 2017.

 

Moderator, “Archives and Activism in Newark: Documenting Newark’s Long History of Civil Rights,” Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference. Newark, NJ. April 21, 2017.

 

Panelist, “In Honor of Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, Part 1: Oral History as Queer Archive: Listening with Horacio N. Roque Ramírez,” American Historical Association 131st Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. January 6, 2017.

 

Workshop Facilitator, “HistoryPin How To,” Telling Untold Histories Unconference. Rutgers University-Newark, NJ. May 13, 2016.

 

 

Invited Lectures

 

Invited Lecture, “Uncovering Marginalized LGBTQ+ Histories Using the Queer Newark Oral History Project,” Clark Scholars, Sister Mary T. Clark RSCJ Center for Religion and Social Justice, Director Craig K. Donnelly, Jr., Manhattanville College. November 28, 2023.

 

Invited Lecture, “The Practice of Oral History: The Queer Newark Oral History Project,” Dr. Jennifer Musial’s LGBTQ Social Change undergraduate class, New Jersey City University. October 18, 2021; October 27, 2022; November 20, 2023.

 

Invited Lecture, “A History of Absences: Making Community Visible.” Dr. Joseph Plaster’s Queer Oral History undergraduate course, Johns Hopkins University. Virtual. February 8, 2022.

 

Invited Lecture, Topics in U.S. History: American Popular Cultures, 1890-1945, Dr. Ruth Feldstein, Rutgers University-Newark. November 6, 2018.

 

Invited Lecture, Perspectives in U.S. History: The Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Ruth Feldstein, Rutgers University-Newark. November 6, 2018.

 

Invited Lecture, Discussion on queer identity and discussion of the Queer Newark Oral History Project. Women (Gender), Culture, and Society, Dr. Peter Savastano, Seton Hall University. October 17, 2017.

 

 

Presentations

 

Invited Speaker, RU Pride Night, Rutgers-Newark, October 18, 2024. 

 

Presenter, “Black & Latinx LGBTQI Histories in New Jersey,” New Jersey Historical Commission. Virtual. January 25, 2024.

 

Invited Speaker, “Newark Launch of The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice.” Virtual. September 23, 2021.

 

Invited Presenter, “LGBTQ+ Museum Stories Make Us Happy Hour.” New England Museum Association. Virtual. May 19, 2021.

 

Invited Presenter, “The Queer Newark Oral History Project.” Organized by Dr. Anne M. Valk (CUNY) and Dr. Ellen Noonan (NYU) for their Urban Listeners group of local documentarians. Virtual. November 16, 2020.

 

Invited Presenter, “Queer Newark: An Archive of Pride.” Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ. Virtual. June 10, 2020.

 

Invited Presenter, “Protecting Newark’s History.” Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ. Virtual. May 6, 2020.

 

Invited Presenter, “Queer Newark Oral History Project: A Live Oral History with Angela Raine.” Audible, Inc., Newark, NJ. November 13, 2018.

 

Invited Presenter, PhD Workshop. Rutgers University-Newark. October 15, 2018.

 

Invited Presenter, “Queer Newark Oral History Project: A Community’s Response to the Problem of Invisibility.” Mathematica Policy Research. Princeton, NJ. June 20, 2018.

 

Presenter, “Seeking Asylum, Resisting Detention,” Humanities Action Lab: States of Incarceration Launch Exhibition, New School, New York City. April 15, 2016.

 

 

Round Tables

 

Panelist, “Queer Newark: Panel Discussion,” Burgdorff Center for the Performing Arts, Maplewood. February 22, 2024.

 

Moderator, “LGBTQ Educators Panel Discussion” for the Queer Newark Oral History Project. June 22, 2022.

 

Panelist, “The Future is Queer: Challenges and Triumphs” for the Town of Maplewood Art and Culture’s Pride month events. June 11, 2022.

 

Moderator, Revolution NJ series: “Big Ideas: Concepts for the 250th - How Does Society Shape Individual Actions and Beliefs?” New Jersey Historical Commission. Virtual. March 23, 2022.

 

Panelist, “Self-Expression in Newark’s Popular Culture,” New Jersey History Forum, Monmouth University. West Long Branch, NJ. November 2, 2018.

 

Moderator, Oral History Roundtable with Linda Caldwell Epps, President and CEO of 1804 Consultants; Maria Santiago, oral historian and archivist at StoryCorps; and Krista White, Digital Scholarship and Pedagogies Librarian at the John Cotton Dana Library, Rutgers University-Newark. Queer Newark Oral History Project: Oral History Bootcamp. Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ. October 19, 2018.

 

Moderator, “Historical Legacies: Pioneers” panel with Newark LGBTQ+ AIDS activists. Rutgers University-Newark, NJ. October 21, 2015.

 

 

Workshops and Trainings

 

Workshop Facilitator, “Know Your Rights: Trans, Nonbinary, and LGBTQIA+ Protections in the Workplace and Beyond,” Rutgers AAUP-AFT, Virtual. April 4, 2025.

 

Workshop Facilitator, “Translocal exchange between Newark and our sister communities,” Humanities Action Lab Climates of Inequality 2023 International Convening, Rutgers University-Newark. October 26, 2023.

 

Workshop Facilitator, “Teaching Against Queer Erasure: The Queer Newark Oral History Project,” Teaching Against Erasure, Rutgers University-Newark. October 28, 2023.

 

Workshop Facilitator, “Queering the Past: Teaching New Jersey’s LGBTQ+ History in K-12 Schools,” Montclair State University–Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education Project. January 31, 2023.

 

Workshop Facilitator, “Teaching with Local Stories: The Power & Possibility of LGBTQ+ Oral History for Student Learning,” Teaching Against Erasure, Rutgers University-Newark. November 12, 2022.

 

Training Facilitator, “Creating Safe Spaces for LGBTQ Colleagues and Coworkers.” Academic Foundations Center, Rutgers University-Newark. Virtual. February 7, 2022.

 

Training Facilitator, “Creating Safe Spaces for LGBTQ Colleagues and Coworkers.” BOLD Women’s Leadership Network, Rutgers University-Newark. Virtual. November 12, 2021.

 

Training Facilitator, “Creating Safe Spaces.” Professional development, East Orange School District. Virtual. September 2, 2021.