Readings
Upcoming and Past Speaking Engagements
2020
11. 23 @ 4pm PST | Art Lecture | UCLA (Zoom)
11. 05 @ 4pm PST | Art Lecture | University of Southern California (Zoom)
10. 24 @ 2pm PST | Reading w/ Raina Leon and Thea Matthews | Berkeley Book Festival (Zoom)
10. 21 @ 1pm PST |Writing Workshop | UC Davis (Zoom)
10. 13 @ TBA |Keynote | Fordham University (Zoom)
10. 07 @ 3:30pm PST / 5:30pm CST |Panel with Ariana Brown and Mayra Santos-Febres | Trinity University (Zoom)
10. 01 @ 1pm EST |Keynote| Agnes Scott College (Zoom)
09. 22 @ 4pm PST / 6pm CST |Keynote with Ariana Brown | San Antonio College (Zoom)
09. 18 @ 9:30am PST |Writing Workshop |San Francisco Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs (Zoom)
09. 17 @ 4pm EST |Writing Workshop | NYSLC (Zoom)
09. 15 @ 6:30pm EST | Writing Workshop | American University (Zoom)
09. 15 @ 4:30pm EST |Art Lecture| University of Maryland (Zoom)
05. 15 @ 1pm PST | Panel| Mills College (Zoom)
05. 14 @ 5pm CST | The Limits and Possibilities of Latinidad| DePaul University (Zoom)
05.07 @ 8pm EST | Latine Graduation Keynote | New York University (Zoom)
04.23 @ 12:30pm EST | “Deviant” Pasts, Subversive Futures? : a Virtual LGBTQ+ Studies Symposium | Hofstra University (Zoom)
04.22 @ 5pm PST | Crimmigration Lecture | Whitman College (Google Classroom)
4.22 @ 5:30 EST | Art Lecture | Williams College (Zoom)
04.17 @6:30pm PST |Poetry Reading | QTPOC Zoom Festival (Zoom)
04.16 @ 5pm PST | Poetry Reading w/ Ariana Brown (YouTube Live)
04.08 @ 6:30pm PST | Dialogue & Poetry Reading w/ Yesika Salgado| University of California-Santa Cruz (Zoom)
04.01 @ 7:30pm PST | Creative Writing Workshop | San Francisco State University (Zoom)
03.26 @ 5pm PST | The Quarantine Reading Series (Zoom and YouTube Live)
03.05 @ 7pm | Poetry Reading | Sala Diaz Art Gallery (San Antonio, TX)
03.04 @ 4pm | Poetry Reading | San Jose State University (San Jose, CA)
02.28 @ 6:30pm | Book Launch | Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco, CA)
02.28 @ 11am | Playwright Panel | American Indian Graduate Student Association | Center for Race and Gender @ UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
02.27 @ 6pm | Book Launch | UC Berkeley’s Multicultural Community Center (Berkeley, CA)
02.27 @ 2:30pm | Workshop | Mills College (Oakland, CA)
02.19 @ 7pm | Book Launch | Bureau of General Services – Queer Division (New York, New York)
02.17 @ 6pm | Poetry Reading | The Latino Cultural Center @ Yale University (New Haven, CT)
02.13 @ 6pm | Workshop | California State Polytechnic University, Pomona | (Pomona, CA)
02.07 @ 9:30am | Workshop | San Francisco Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs (San Francisco, CA)
01.15 @7:30pm | Poetry Reading |Lyrics & Dirges | Pegasus Books (Berkeley, CA)
2019
12.12 @7pm | Reading | Museum of the African Diaspora
11.12 @ 6pm | Collage Workshop | Center for Diversity and Inclusion | Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
11.05 @ 6pm | San Francisco Public Library (San Francisco, CA)
10.25 @ 6pm | Reading | Colby College (Waterville, ME)
10.23 @ 11pm | Keynote & Poetry Reading| College of San Mateo (San Mateo, CA)
10.22 @ 4pm | Workshop | Mills College (Oakland, CA)
10.14 @ 6:30pm | Performance | The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA)
10.04 @ 2:30pm | Writing Workshop | Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
09.23 @ 4:30pm | Keynote & Healing Circle | Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
09.22 @ 2pm | Keynote | Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY)
09.17 @ 6pm | Reading | USU Ballroom | California State University, San Marcos (San Marcos, CA)
09.12 @ 7pm | Reading | Strut (San Francisco, CA)
09.09 @ 6pm | Panel | Yelp Headquarters (San Francisco, CA)
08.06 @ 6pm | Eliza So Fellowship Reading, Submittable | Montgomery Distillery (Missoula, MT)
04.18 @ 5pm| Writing Workshop & Comm Discussion | Cal State LA (Los Angeles, CA)
04.18 @ 10:00am| Writing Workshop & Luncheon | UCLA (Los Angeles, CA)
04.17 @ 6:30pm| Panel |Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA)
04.11 @ 5:00| Keynote |Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA)
04.09 @ 6pm| Reading | The Hub| Sonoma State University (Rohnert Park, CA)
04.09 @ 12pm| Lecture | Stevenson Hall| Sonoma State University (Rohnert Park, CA)
03.30 @ 5:30pm | Keynote | Collegiate Alliance for Immigration Reform | Davidson College (Davidson, NC)
03.29 @ 7pm | Reading | VONA 20th Anniversary | AWP Offsite (Portland, OR)
03.28 @ 10:30am| Reading |Oregon Convention Center| Association of Writers & Writing Programs (Portland, OR)
03.26 @ 6:30pm | Keynote | Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)
03.21 @ 5pm | Panel | Cesar Chavez Mural Celebration | San Francisco State University (San Francisco, CA)
03.09 @ 4:30pm | Reading | Mixed Student Conference | University of California, Davis (Davis, CA)
03.08 @ 12:20 pm | Reading | The California Endowment (Oakland ,CA)
02.27 @ 7:30pm | Reading | University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz ,CA)
2.14 @ 12pm | Workshop | University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL)
02.13 @ 5pm | Art + Scholarship Presentation | The Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality and the Center for the Study of Race, Gender & Politics |University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
02.12 @ 6pm | Writing Workshop | University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
02.03 @ 7pm| Keynote | Multicultural Resource Center | Reed College (Portland, OR)
2018
10. 24 @ 6:30pm | Reading | Ethnic Studies Library | UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
10. 17 @ 3pm | Reading | Center for Race and Gender | UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
9. 24 @ 7pm | Host & Reading | LUNADA | Galería de la Raza (San Francisco, CA)
9. 20 @ 6:30pm | Panel | EFNIKS | Strut (San Francisco, CA)
6. 22 @ 10am | Reading | La Société Sénégalaise de Philosophie | Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (Dakar, Sénégal)
6. 20 @ 11:30am | Paper Presentation | La Société Sénégalaise de Philosophie | Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (Dakar, Sénégal)
6.14 @6pm | Reading | NYU’s Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (New York, NY)
5.19 @ 8pm | Keynote | We The People Conference | UC Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)
5.18 @ 10:45am |Paper Presentation | Afro-Latinidades Symposium | Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
4.19 @ 3:30pm | Reading | Split This Rock (Washington DC)
4.14 @ 2pm | Keynote | Semana de la Communidad | Women’s Resource and Research Center | UC Davis (Davis, CA)
4.06 @ 6pm | Reading | QTPOC Conference | UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
4.04 @ 6pm | Workshop | Rising Immigrant Students through Education | UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
3.15 @ 1pm | Opening Reading | American Indian Graduate Student Association | UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
3.12 @ 2pm | Workshop | UC San Diego (San Diego, CA)
3.09 @ 7:30pm | Host | Culture Fuck (Oakland, CA)
3.08 @ 12pm | Salon Conversation | Multicultural Community Center | UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
2.28 @ 7pm | Panel | Brown University (Providence, RI)
2.27 @ 5:30pm | Panel | Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center | UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
2.11 @ 3pm | Workshop | The Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco, CA)
2.09 @ 7:30pm | Host | Culture Fuck (Oakland, CA)
1.27 @ 6pm | Reading | Bookmark Bookstore (Oakland, CA)
2017
12.8 @ 7:30 | Feature | Culture Fuck (Oakland, CA)
11.17 @ 5:00 | Reading | Hella Latina Food Pop-Up Series (Oakland, CA)
11.9 @ 5:30 | Reading | MCC Library One Year Anniversary| UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
10.25 @ 4:30 | Reading | Arts & Humanities Research Initiative | UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
10.13 @ 6:30 | Host | Culture Fuck (Oakland, CA)
9.06 @ 6:30 | Reading | UndocuWelcome, Rising Immigrant Students through Education | UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
7. 30 @ 11:00 | Reading | Indigenous Literature Conference | Central LA Public Library (Los Angeles, CA)
7. 29 @ 2:00 | Reading | Indigenous Literature Conference | Central LA Public Library (Los Angeles, CA)
6.23 @ 7:00 | Reading | Asian American Writers Workshop (New York, NY)
6.22 @6:30 | Panel | NYU’s Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (New York, NY)
6.05 @1:30 | Workshop | Multi-Cultural Center | De Anza College (Cupertino, CA)
6.05 @11:30 | Keynote | Euphrat Museum of Art (Cupertino, CA)
5.16 @ 7:00 | Feature | UndocuMonologues | Multicultural Center| UC Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA)
5.16 @ 3:00 | Workshop | Multicultural Center | UC Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA)
4.20 @ 4:00 | Paper Presentation | Center for Race and Gender | UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA):00
4.08 @ 2:00 | Paper Presentation | Dialogues and Challenges in the Study of the African Diaspora in Latin America | Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
4.05 @ 6:00 | Feature | Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA)
3. 14 @ 6:30 | Workshop | Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, CA)
2.02 @ 4:30 | Moderator | Ethnic Studies Library (Berkeley, CA)
2.04 @ 11:00 | Keynote | Presente Conference | UC Riverside (Riverside, CA)
2016
10.24 @ 7:00 | Keynote | Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, CA)
10.8 @ 5:30 | Keynote | Latinx Heritage Series | Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
9.28 @ 12:00 | Art Presentation | Crossing Paths: Exchange of Indigenous Research | UC Berkeley (Berkely, CA)
2.26 @ 12:00 | Speaker | Black History Month Series | Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)
1.16 @ 10:00 | Workshop | UndocuBlack Network | St. Thomas University (Miami, FL)
1.16 @ 2:00 | Workshop | UndocuBlack Network | St. Thomas University (Miami, FL)
2015
12.15 @12:00 | Workshop | National Immigrant Integration Conference (New York, NY)
12.13 @ 10:00 | Speaker | Mijente Convening (Chicago, IL)
4.18 @ 2:00 | Reading | University of Rhode Island (S. Kingstown, RI)
4.15 @ 5:00 | Feature | Loyola Gallery (Fairfield, CT)
3.19 @ 3:00 | Paper Presentation | Conference on College Composition and Communication (Tampa, FL)