“City of the Big Solvers: Learning about Chicago through the lens of those making it a better place.” Chicago Research Summit. October, 2023

“Engaging Audiences in Elections: What I’ve learned from my Gen Z students.” Journalism and Women Symposium. October, 2023

“Embedding Civic Education in the Curriculum and Beyond: The Columbia College Chicago model.” Democracy in All Seasons, for Every Season Workshop. Faculty Network for Student Voting Rights. October, 2023

“Solutions Beyond Journalism Education: Using a solutions journalism lens in a college-wide, first-semester course.” Solutions Journalism Network Trainers’ Check-in. September, 2023

“Solutions Journalism Workshop.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 2023

“How to teach solutions journalism: A workshop for educators.” Drake University. April, 2023

“Enhance Your Interview Skills: Techniques That Really Work!” Northern Illinois Scholastic Press Association. March, 2023

“Enough of the Bad News! Get To Know Solutions Journalism.” Northern Illinois Scholastic Press Association. March, 2023

“Fundamentals of fact checking.” Columbia Scholastic Press Association. March, 2023

“Solutions Journalism: Covering what’s going RIGHT in the world.” Columbia Scholastic Press Association. March, 2023

“Faculty Workshop: Pedagogy & Practice: Integrating Civic Values Beyond the classroom.” Governors State University. March, 2023

“Innovative Approaches to Full Student Voter Participation.” Students Learn Students Vote Post-Election Gathering, Virtual. December, 2022.

“Solutions Journalism: Framing Stories in Ways that Engage Readers.” National Association of State Radio Networks, Chicago. December, 2022.

“Is Solutions Journalism a New Tool in the Branded Content Toolbox?” Mapping the Magazine 7, DesMoines (held virtually). August, 2022.

“How to teach Solutions Journalism.” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications annual conference, Detroit. August, 2022.

“Water as Text: Facilitating Learning about Chicago and Community.” Chicago Research Summit. Oct 2021.

“BIYoC Civic Power Outages - Civic Influencers™ Town Hall.” Panel moderator. October 2021.

“Pivot to Pass: A Pandemic Option When Stories (or Student) Fall Apart.” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual conference (held virtually). August 2021.