Speaking Events
-Talk, “Quizas El No Te Pega” Hablemos Sobre Violencia De Genero – XXIV Feria Internacional del Libro, Santo Domingo, 2022
-Talk, Decolonizing Beauty for DEIB series, Curology, Inc, 2021
-Panelist, Body Codes, performance traditions in the Americas and the conscription of bodies by local and global architectures and state apparatus, Hemi Conference, University of Chicago, 2021
-Keynote, “Unpacking Latinidad”: can this community exist without antiblackness?, Latinx in Action Celebration, University of Iowa, 2021
-Talk, Antiblackness in Latin America, UC Davis, 2021
-Panelist, Afrolatinidad, Latina Empowerment Symposium, University of Florida, 2021
-Talk, Afrodescendientes: A critical dialogue on the Black experience in Latin America and the Caribbean, Rutgers University, 2021
-Talk, Antiblackness in Latin America, 2021 Afrolatinx Festival, Long Beach Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), 2021
-Panelist, Afrolatinx Feminisms in the URL and IRL spheres, Radical Kinship Series, UC Berkeley, 2021
-Talk, Antiblackness in the Latinx Community, Wellesley College, 2020
-Talk, Antiblackness and Racial Hierarchy in Latin America, SUNY Suffolk, 2020
-Panelist, Deconstructing AfroLatinidad, Twitter, Inc, 2020
-Talk, Racial Hierarchy and Antiblackness in Latin America, Washington University, 2020
-Talk, Post Colonial Feminism, Carthage College, 2020
-Panelist, Identity and Belonging, Afrolatino Festival, NYC, 2020
-Panelist, Todo Depende: Genre& The Writer, Dominican Writers Association Conference, NYC, 2019
-Keynote, Latina Sexuality, Tea Time, University of South California, 2019
-Talk, Antiblackness in the Latinx community, Stanford University, 2019
-Co-host, Build Brunch daytime talk show, 2019
-Talk, Art Activism and AfroLatinidad, Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore, 2019
-Talk, Gender, Race & Antiblackness from an Afrolatina Perspective, Guttman College, NYC, 2019
-Talk, Racial Hierarchy and Recognizing Antiblackness, Depauw University, Indiana, 2019
-Talk, Being Afrolatina, Birmingham University, 2019
-Keynote, How being Latina shaped my work, REAL conference, Emory University, 2019
-Talk, Afrolatinidad from a Millienial perspective: The Winter Series, Union College, 2019
-Panelist, Afrolatinx Artivism- St Johns University, NYC, 2019
-Talk, Antiblackness in Latin America, Swarthmore College, Philadelphia, 2018
-Talk, Racial Hierarchy in Latin America, San Diego State University, 2018
-Keynote, Antiblackness in Latin America, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, 2018
-Tour Host for AfroCuban centered tour, Afrolatino Travel Group Tour, Havana, Cuba, 2018
-Keynote, Being AfroLatina and Self-Preservation, UC Davis, 2018
-Workshop, Postcolonial Feminism and Racial Hierarchy in Latin America, Brown University, Rhode Island, 2018
-Keynote, Antiblackness in the Dominican Republic and Latin America, Carnaval 2018, Dominican Students at Brown University, Rhode Island, 2018
-Special Guest, Solace film premiere, by director Tchaiko Omawale, NYC, 2018
-Talk, Antiblackness as Latin American Nationalism, Colgate University, NY, 2018
-Keynote, Being AfroLatina and Racial Hierarchy in Latin America, Noche de Gala-Hispanic Heritage Month, Stephen F Austin State University, Texas, 2018
-Panelist, Representa! Series, Blossom TV in collaboration with AintiLatina.com, 2018
-Keynote, Antiblackness in Latinamerica, Black and Latina Womens Summit, University of Illinois, 2018
-Workshop, Recognizing Antiblackness in Latinamerica, Black and Latina Womens Summit, University of Illinois, 2018
-Talk, Antiblackness in Latinamerica, Occidental College, 2018
-Keynote, Decolonizing Research Methods, Columbia University, 2018
-Talk, Art and Resistance, University of Wisconsin, 2018
-Keynote, Antiblackness in Latinamerica, UCLA, 2018
-Talk, Antiblackness in Latinamerica, Indiana University, 2018
-Workshop, Blackness in Dominican Republic, National Dominican Student Conference, NYU, 2018
-Keynote, Living as AfroLatina, Washington State University, 2018
-Keynote Speaker, Healing and Resistance as an Afrolatina, Womyn of Color Conference, UC Santa Barbara, 2018
-Panelist, with Alan Pelaez, Afrolatinidad, UC Berkeley, 2018
-Keynote, Latinas Beyond UPenn, University of Pennsylvania, 2017
-Panelist, Being Dominican in Different Industries, National Dominican Student Conference, NYU, 2017
-Panelist, Episode 2: Solidarity: Intellectual Life, Contemplation, and Belonging in the Millenia, Chroma Collective Conference, NYC, 2017
-TEDx Talk, #QuizaNoTePegue, TEDx Mexico City Women, CDMX, 2017
-Talk, Decolonizing Beauty Standards, Boston College, 2017
-Panelist, Ni Negro Ni Blanco, NYU, 2017
-Keynote Speaker, Teen Summit, Casita Maria, Bronx NY, 2017
-Podcast, Ep 6: Dirty Scrapbooking with Zahira Kelly, Latinos Out Loud with Juan Bago and Rachel La Loca, 2017
-Talk, Afrolatinas Plight in Latin America/#QuizaNoTePegue, Foro Mujeres Lideres de Mexico, Tecnologico de Monterrey-Campus Monterrey, Mexico, 2017
-Talk, Antiblackness as Latin American Nationalism, Williams College, Massachusetts, 2017
-Panelist, Feminism, Womanism, and the Struggle for Equality within Black Community, Boston University, 2017
-Art Exhibition, Light (An Ode To Women), hARTlem, NY, 2017
-Panelist, Feminism and Racism, Pitchwise Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia, 2017
-Art Exhibition, Pitchwise Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia, 2017
-Q&A, The Sex Myth, A Devised Play, HERE Arts Center, NYC, 2017
-Panelist, Community Economics & Women Entrepeurship, AfroLatino Festival, NYC, 2017
-Host, Music Concert, Afrolatino Festival NYC, 2017
-Art Exhibition & Panelist, The Scarlet Event, NY, 2017
-Panel Moderator, Right2Work, NYC, 2017
-Panelist, Artists in Action Forum: The Revolution, NYC, 2017
-Talk, AfroLatina: Living as Embodied Myth, Western Washington University, 2017
-Reading & Q&A on decolonizing love, True Story Series, KGB Bar, NYC, 2017
-Art Exhibition, You Ruined Me/You Made Me Better- Odiosas Bx, Brooklyn, 2017
-In-Studio Interview, Tea With Queen and J podcast, Bondfire Radio, NYC, 2016
-Talk, Intergenerational Trauma: Recognizing and Healing Colonial wounds in the Latin American Community, NorthWestern University, 2016
-Panelist, How We Disappear: Missing in Life, Missing in Death, with Lauren Chief Elk and Shaadi Devereaux, Sarah Lawrence College, 2016
-Talk, Black history month, on being an Afrolatina, Knox College, Illinois, 2016
-Panelist on art with Aaron Bondaroff, Andrew Kuo, Z Behl, Sam McKinniss and Venus X, Chillin Island Multimedia Art Show, Babycastles, NYC, 2016
-Talk, on telenovelas and the ways they parallel reality for Afrolatinas, Davidson College, North Carolina, 2016
-Reading of Written Pieces, SheWritesShe, Readings by Femme identified authors, Naked Heart Fest, Toronto, 2015
-Panelist, The Crucible of Trauma- on traversing trauma through creative expression, Naked Heart Fest, Toronto, 2015
-Art Exhibition Closing Cerermony, Sweeties at The ICA- celebration concluding my art showing at a month long group art exhibition by Sweeties Art Collective, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2015
-Panelist, Building Communities of Resistance, Building A Movement Conference (#BAM2015), The New School, NYC, 2015
-Panelist, Toxic Twitter-duo panel with Shaadi Devereaux on the perils and liberatory power of twitter for marginalized women of color, Sarah Lawrence College, NY, 2015
-Panelist, Disrupting the Digital Humanities- on driving, challenging and redirecting humanities discourse over social media, MLA conference, Via Satellite, 2015
-Talk, Afrolatina: Living as Embodied Myth- a breakdown of afrolatina erasure, history, present and future, Depauw University, Indiana, 2014
-Classroom Lecture, PostColonial Feminism: Deconstructing Damsels in Distress, Feminist Theory Class, Depauw University, Indiana, 2014
-Classroom Lecture, Erasure of AfroLatinxs and Underground Libraries surging post-Tucson ethnic study book bans- Depauw University, Indiana, 2014