Presentations & Appearances

2019

2019. “Performing Decolonial Moves,” ALARI First Continental Conference on Afro-Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts (December, Forthcoming).

2019. Panel Chair, “‘Who Am I’: Analyzing Spoken Word in Global Hip Hop,” Hip Hop Studies Conference, Allen University, Columbia, South Carolina.

2019. “Dutch Caribbean Ways of Knowing: The Impact of Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism on Curaçaoan Africology,” Ways of Knowing: Scholars of Color Conference, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

2019. “Creative Ways to Change the World,” Creativibe: Think Outside the Coop. TED-like talks. 100 Expressions of Creativity and Innovation Across UofSC, University of South Carolina, Columbia. 

2019. “Contemplations on Dutch Caribbean Consciousness Poetics,” Gullah Geechee and African Diaspora Conference, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina.

2018

2018. “Black and Brown Literacies: Hip Hop Aesthetics in Ernesto Quiñonez’s Bodega Dreams,” Hip Hop Studies Conference, Allen University, Columbia, South Carolina.

2018. Panel Chair, “Rap and Storytelling in the Classroom,” Hip Hop Studies Conference, Allen University, Columbia, South Carolina.

2018. “Colorism in the Americas and the Caribbean.” University of South Carolina, Columbia.

2018. “Strategies for Teaching First Generation College Students,” Center for Teaching Excellence, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

2017

2017. “Teaching First Generation College Students,” Center for Teaching Excellence, University of South Carolina, Columbia.  

2017. “Women Picturing Revolution: Focus on Africa and the African Diaspora,” Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University, New York.

2016

2016. “Black Latina Feminism: Visibility, Equality, and Justice,” Keynote Speaker, LASO/FEMCO, Office Multicultural Student Affairs, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

2016. “Performing ‘New Nationalism’: Josefina Báez’s “Living Culture” in Dominicanish.” African American Arts: Activism and Aesthetics, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania.

2016. “Performing Hip Hop, Performing a ‘Living Culture’: Josefina Báez’s Dominicanish.” Hip Hop Literacies Conference: Black Women and Girls’ Lives Matter, Ohio State University. 

2015

2015. “Let Me Tell You About My Fam: Family Identities from the Hip Hop Generation.” Conference: Circling Our Wagons: Reflections on Hip Hop Landscapes, Albany State University, Georgia.

2015. Panel Chair, “The Commercialization of Hip Hop: Talking Gender, Race, and Consumer Hip Hop.” Hip Hop Studies Conference, Allen University, Columbia, South Carolina.

2014

2014. “Performing a ‘Living Culture’: Josefina Báez’s Dominicanish,” Sustaining ‘Home’ Across Diasporas, SAMLA Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

2014. “Afro-Caribbeanism into the Future: Blackness and the Construction of Democratic Multiculturalism in the Dutch Caribbean.” African and African Diaspora Studies Department 1st Annual Conference, City University of New York, Staten Island.

2014. “Sisterhood in the Hip Hop Movement: Discrediting the ‘Gangsta-Pimp-Ho’ Trinity.” Conference: Circling Our Wagons: Reflections on Hip Hop Landscapes, Albany State University, Georgia.

2014. “US Latinas Se Encuentran: Symbolic and Literal Roles of Water in Re-Mapping Holistic Interconnectedness.” NEMLA Conference, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

2013

2013. “É Kurasoleña Nobo: Expressions of the Curaçaoan Woman in the Paintings by Jean Girigori, Minerva Lauffer and Viviana Cornet.” Africana Studies Department’s 11th Annual Symposium, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

2012

2012. “Expressions of Self: An Analysis of the Spiritual Flows in the Paintings by Viviana Cornet.” Inauguration Lecture Expressions of Self Exhibition, Kas di Kultura [Cultural House], Curaçao, Dutch Caribbean.

2012.  “Finding Home: New Women in the City.” Institute for African American Research, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

2011

2011. “Performing Nuyo-Urbanismo/ Performing Self.” Comparative Literature Colloquium Series, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

2011. “Redefining Nationalism & Cultural Citizenship Post-10/10/10: Performing De-Colonial Moves in Curaçaoan City-scapes.” 35th Annual Caribbean Studies Association Conference 2011, Curaçao, Dutch Caribbean.

2011. “21st Century Curaçaoan Women Writers: Re-visiting, De-stabilizing and (Re) imagining the Kurasoleña.” Berkeley Conference on Dutch Literature: Colonial and Post-Colonial Connections in Dutch Literature, University of California, Berkeley.

2010 & Prior

2010. “Decolonizing Modern Colonial Carib-Glocal Women of Color: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S. Afro-Latina and the Kurasoleña Case.” Institute for African American Research, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

2010.  “Locating the Dutch Caribbean Women in the 21st Century País Kòrsou: Interpreting the Feminine in the Expression Art Works of Three Generation Curaçaoan Women Artists.” South Eastern Women’s Studies Association, Cultural Production, Gender, and Activism, Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Conference, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

2007.  “Constructing US Black Latina Feminist Thought.” Graduate Student Day The Graduate School, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

2007. “Constructing US Black Latina Feminist Thought: Claiming Identity, Social Space.” Women’s Studies Conference Series, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

2004.  “Hip Hop Feminism and the Labor Movement: The Struggle for Inclusion and Collective Political Activism.” Capitol District’s Annual Hip Hop Meets Labor Movement Conference, Albany, New York.

2003. “Hip Hop Feminism, Justice and Globalization.” Women’s Studies Colloquium, Justice or Just Us, “Fear of a Just Planet? Toward Global Perspectives on Social Justice,” University at Albany, State University of New York.

2001. “Tackling Human Trafficking: Women’s Human Rights.” Center for Women’s Development (SEDA), Curaçao.