Do What You Love, Sort Of, and Get Paid For It: Navigating Freelance and Gig Work

Learn how to create side hustle(s) and make more money, with a side of why full-time gig life is not as cool as it sounds.  Presented in September 2022 at Sophomore Summit.

Creating Your Personal Brand

A workshop for undergraduates about crafting your online professional identity, presented in May 2021.

Love Beyond Oil: Intimacy as the Way Out of Extraction

Scholarly inquiry and sock-darning anecdotes coalesce in this 15-minute presentation about how the literal extraction of oil is a useful rhetorical framework for understanding oppression. 

Presented at GradCon in February 2021.

How My Whitman Athletic Experience Helped My Career

A young alumni panel about transitioning from and applying collegiate athletics to your professional life after graduating.

Presented with Heather Johns '15, Jenna Dobrin '16, Alex Izbiky '20, and Nishaant Limaye '19 in November 2020. View the recording here.

New Year, New You: Give Yourself Permission to Stop Dieting in 2020

Presented at an Athleta community event in January 2020. 

Life After Whitman

A young alumni panel about graduate school, vocational school, and fellowships. 

Presented at Sophomore Summit with Halley McCormick, Brahm Coler, Samuel Perkins, and Al-Rahim Merali in January 2020. 

If We Stopped Trying to Burn Calories, Could We Burn Down the Patriarchy Instead? An Anti-Diet Approach to Justice

Abstract: Western medicine and beauty standards inaccurately conflate thinness with health. Several myths mislead the public and pervade even so-called ‘woke’ circles: one, that what you eat affects your body composition; two, that diets help people lose weight; three, that we must be careful around food to stay slender; four, that slender people are healthy and fat people are not; and five, that being slender is inherently desirable, even at great cost. Come to this session to see how these misconceptions disenfranchise us all, to learn how to challenge diet culture, and to find validation in eating what tastes good. 

Presented at DiverseU 2019 and in revised form as a professional development session for the Missoula YWCA in February 2020. 

Mano a mano en la lucha intergaláctica / Hand in Hand in the Intergalactic Fight: Braided Images in El Eternauta

Abstract: El Eternauta, an Argentinian science fiction graphic novel written in the 1950s by Hector Germán Oesterheld and illustrated by Francisco Solano López, tells the story of a man named Juan Salvo who must fight to survive a radioactive snow and an extraterrestrial invasion of Buenos Aires in the 1960s.  This project approaches the relationship between image and text by using Thierry Groenstein’s theory of braiding, which is a kind of visual motif that links a series of repeated images throughout a graphic novel.  In El Eternauta, the braiding of various characters’ hands produces two visual theses: one, that hands, useful in life and a distinct loss in death, are a metonym for the body, a resource as fundamental to the resistance, solidarity and humanity as the mind; and two, hands are a way to understand our humanity as a link not only among ourselves but to all citizens of the universe.    

Presented at the University of Montana's 2019 GradCon. 

Up to Here With Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Matt Lauer Et Al: How to Identify, Prevent and Navigate Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

Abstract: If you're up to here with feeling shocked, overwhelmed, or jaded about the slew of high-profile 2017 sexual misconduct allegations, and if you want to empower yourself and others, this workshop can help.  During this session, you'll hear about power dynamics in the workplace, test your ability to identify Title VII violations and learn how to respond to harassment and how to avoid enabling or committing it yourself.

Presented at the 2018 Power & Privilege Symposium with Victoria Wolff, Brynn Louise, Kimberly Rolfe, Gayle Townsend, Hailey Powers, Brahm Coler, Beth Salaguinto, and Lily Parker. 

6 Exercises to Get Even the Flattest Booty to Pop: Cosmetic Fitness & Why It Sucks

Abstract: When online content focuses on "fixing" specific flaws, it weakens the opportunities for empowerment that fitness offers to women in particular. Articles about "sculpting abs" or achieving the elusive "thigh gap" often feature good exercises framed in a damaging way. We may never divorce exercise from its cosmetic implications, but we can ask whether "loose the pooch" is the message we want to send about women's bodies.

Presented at the 2017 Power & Privilege Symposium with Linnea Valdivia. 

Visiones de la muerte entretejidas en la vida/Intertwined: Life and Death in Latino/Spanish Graphic Narrative

Abstract: This project analyzes how the visual technique of braiding links various series of repeated images throughout each text to suggest a non-linear reading, resist the finality of death, and involve the reader in the act of narrative creation in three graphic novels: Daytripper by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá, Julio’s Day by Gilbert Hernandez, and el Duelo by Esteban Hernández.

Abstracto: Este proyecto examina tres novelas gráficas, Daytripper de Fábio Moon y Gabriel Bá, Julio’s Day de Gilbert Hernandez y el Duelo de Esteban Hernández, a través la teoría del braiding ideada por Thierry Groenstein.  Específicamente, analiza cómo la técnica visual del braiding vincula varias series de imágenes repetidas a lo largo de cada obra para sugerir una lectura no-lineal, resistir la finalidad de la muerte e involucrar al lector en el acto de la creación narrativa.  

Presented at the 2016 Whitman Undergraduate Conference.